273563 - opening many tabs at once can result in some pages not loading

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Lorin Rivers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041205 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041205 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

I have some folders with 20+ bookmarks in them. In Firefox, when I use "open in
tabs" for them, some pages don't load and others load the wrong URL. Same
bookmarks work fine in Camino 0.8.2 (tested at the same time)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a bookmark folder with many bookmarks in it
2. Use "open in tabs" for that folder

Actual Results:  
Some tabs report that they can't load while other tabs load the same url as
other tabs are trying to load

Expected Results:  
Each tab contains the correct url content, all tabs load

Here is my folder's URL list:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/
http://slashdot.org/
http://www.boingboing.net/
http://www.swaine.com/
http://gizmodo.com/
http://www.wired.com/news/
http://www.mobilewhack.com/
http://freshmeat.net/
http://www.mobitopia.com/
http://www.engadget.com/
http://www.alwayson-network.com/index.php
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/
http://www.techdirt.com/
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://www.43folders.com/
http://www.pvrblog.com/
http://apple.netscape.com/apple.adp
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
http://www.hackaday.com/
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp
http://webjay.org/
http://www.daoureport.com/
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

Comment 1

[Lorin Rivers]

Further investigation shows that Camino also loads some URLs in the wrong tabs,
but does not report that some pages failed to load. Safari DOES load the same
selection correctly.

Comment 2

[Lorin Rivers]

Darn it, I think this may be a network problem. I'll confirm from a different location.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

yeah, if you overload your network with data, after X number of sites you'll get
timeouts etc.  That's just a limitation of the OS/network that most apps don't
experience since they don't open continuous connections to a large number of
sites at the same time.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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