275489 - Page load takes minutes with FF, seconds with IE

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Brendan C. LeFebvre]

Minutes, if ever. I don't usually have the patience to wait.

Also occurs with
http://www.isiknowledge.com

With the latter, hangs on "Waiting for images02.isiknowledge.com"
Have observed on multiple 1.0/XP installations.

Comment 1

[Thomas Dalton]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405
Firefox/1.0+

WFM

Comment 2

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050528
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052805

URL WFM
Comment URL is no longer accessable

-> WFM

Reporter please reopen if you are able to reproduce this with a current build
preferably a current trunk nightly build.

Comment 3

[Brendan C. LeFebvre]

Bug persists in Deer Park Alpha 1.

Problem seems limited to sites that are in the proxy server .pac file. Just
encountered it trying to load http://www.pnas.org with proxy settings at
http://proxy.hosts.jhmi.edu/proxy.pac

For the good of mankind, I will make password available to a tester for a
limited time; just email.

Comment 4

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

If possible could you create a log using the following instructions:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html

This may help in tracking down the problem.

Comment 5

[Brendan C. LeFebvre]

Attachment: http log for proxy problem

Log created as follows:
-- opened Deer Park alpha 1
-- visited www.pnas.org with proxy authentication 
-- waited two minutes, load still not complete 
-- pressed STOP and exited.

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner

Comment 7

[jhnet3]

I have the same problem.  My PC has proxy configured.  When I am AWAY from the office/proxy server (proxy server is unreachable), EVERY single page is slow.  It seems to be waiting for proxy server to time out on EVERY request.

In contrast, Google Chrome only waits on the FIRST request, then the rest are fast.

This is Firefox 4.0 beta 6 on Windows XP SP3.

Comment 8

[kory.greenwood]

If one of you guy's can please post a snapshot of this bug I will try to work on it.

Comment 9

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

along the way we did some work making pac resolution much better.. given the age of this bug I'm going to WFM it based on that.. other than that, its probably inactionable without a new testcse (wontfix)