295598 - Display "site not found" like IE does.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28586

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Greg Amis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

My DNS has been very flaky lately, causing my browser to fail to find many
websites. Obviously, this isn't a problem with FireFox, but I think the way
FireFox handles the situation could be better. Currently, it pops an alert
dialog, saying that the site could not be found, and it leaves the location bar
blank. This is really annoying, since a) the dialog forces this window to have
focus, even if you're working in another window; and b) once you click "ok" to
the dialog, you have no idea what site failed to load because the location bar
is blank. A better way to handle it would be like IE does it: load/persist the
failed url in the location bar, and load an error message in the window saying
that the page could not be found and list some possible remedies. This would be
much more useful and much less annoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load firefox.
2. Attempt to load an invalid url.

Actual Results:  
Currently, it pops an alert dialog, saying that the site could not be found, and
it leaves the location bar blank.

Expected Results:  
A better way to handle it would be like IE does it: load/persist the failed url
in the location bar, and load an error message in the window saying that the
page could not be found and list some possible remedies. This would be much more
useful and much less annoying.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before you file a bug