276379 - Firefox attempts to access site for several minutes/seconds, whereas IE can access it quickly.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041223 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041223 Firefox/1.0+

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Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Not sure how often this is reproduceable, but this could be a big issue if it
happens often.  Here's how I reproduced it:
1. Go to: http://simcity.ea.com/ in Firefox.
2. Open the same site in IE.
Actual Results:  
After a minute or more, Firefox still shows the activity icon like it is
attempting to access the site.  The actual page is white (and void of real
content in the html).
In IE, the page loads quickly.  Sometimes, it would not load right away (showed
a blue background), but hitting refresh allowed access.  Shift+refresh in IE
does take longer to load, but within several seconds.


Firefox was able to access the page only a few minutes before.

Comment 1

[Kevin Ar18]

Additional note: After closing Firefox and re-opening it, I was able to access
the site almost immediately.

Comment 2

[Sunil Garg]

I can access the site just fine.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Comment 3

[Kevin Ar18]

This is probably gonna be one of those ones that you'll never find the cause for....

Comment 4

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050110
Firefox/1.0+

(Yesterday's nightly)

I got the behaviour described in your last paragraph but one. (Starts: "In
IE ...").

Could the original problem be a DNS issue? I imagine that the site uses 
heavy graphics or flash - Could IE have cached some of these?

This is probably WFM.

Comment 5

[Kevin Ar18]

I used the forced refresh in both IE and Firefox (I think) -- the one where you
hold down the shift key and click refresh.  This should force it to re-load from
the server from what I know.  Do you know if IE does this differently in some way?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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