275316 - IE has to open some sites first before Firefox will

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Stephen Windhaus]

On many ocassions I have to open a website first in IE before I can get it to
open in FireFox. On all ocassions it has been for a site I have never visited
before. FireFox will first tell me the website is not accessible. Then, after IE
opens the site, I can then open the website in FireFox. You need to fix this,
because, as a businessman, I cannot be wasting a lot of valuable time going to
FireFox, then IE and then back to FireFox during my online research activities,
which are a critical and time-consuming part of our business.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Can you be troubled to give some examples, since this obviously works for the 11
million other people who use it....

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041217
Firefox/1.0+

From the reporter's POV it is hard to reproduce - once the site is open, it
is no longer closed to Firefox.

Can you see the problem the problem with any other standards compliant
browser?

Can you see it on any other platform?

Do you have saved headers and/or network traces?

I am quite happy to agree that an inability to open sites for the first
time is an important problem. The first step is to identify whether the
problem is due to a defect in Firefox and if not, it doesn't belong
in Bugzilla.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.