276021 - after long idle being minimized pages will not load gives page cannot be found error

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[auxxx]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

After a long idle being minimized pages will not load. For example after a long
wait I bring Mozilla back up, everything works, any pages that are open I can
look at but not refresh. If I try to goto http://google.com.au it just sits
loading, if I wait long enough it will say that this page cannot be found. To
fix this problem I have to restart Mozilla. After this http://google.com.au
loads in a few micro seconds.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mozilla with any webpage.
2. Minimize and leave idle for a few hours.
3. Open it again and try to load any website, eg http://google.com

Actual Results:  
Sat loading until the error message "http://google.com cannot be found" showed.

Expected Results:  
Load Google right away.

Comment 1

[Micha³ Piaskowski]

I often leave Mozilla working for hours and didn't get any problems.

I see that you are using Mozilla 1.7.3
Please download Mozilla 1.7.5 from
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.7.5
or the most recent nightly build from:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/nightly.html
And check if you still see this problem then.

Comment 2

[auxxx]

Okay I just downloaded and installed 1.7.5 last night. I left Mozilla minimized
overnight and in the morning I was unable to load any website again. I couldn't
even connect to my mail server via Mail & Newsgroups. I had to restart to get it
working again. So maybe try leaving it overnight instead of a few hours. 

By the way, I havn't check this yet but I think I can access cached/local pages
just fine. My home page always works, which happens to be located on C:. Its
only pages that have to be reloaded or loaded from a non-local source that do
not work.

Comment 3

[Ian Neal]

Try going into start, control panel, administrative tools, services and select
DNS client and then either right click and restart or click on the restart icon.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

auxxx: does Ian's suggestion help?

==> networking

Comment 5

[auxxx]

No that didn't seem to help. Although I havn't had the problem for awhile
becuase I started turning my computer off instead of leaving it on 24/7. But I
think the problem is something to do with the way mozilla handles memory. It
seems to leak memory a bit.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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