297936 - gmail causes firefox to look on local disk for remote frame sources

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bitt Faulk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4

After logging into Gmail, I get this sequence of events:

1) Browser shows the text "Loading..." in black in the upper left.
2) Firefox pops up a dialog titled "Alert" that says "The file
/gmail/html/loading.html cannot be found.  Please check the location and try
again."  The dialog has an "OK" button, which I click.
3) The "Loading..." text disappears and a red rectangle appears in the upper
right corner of the browser, then disappears.
4) I get the same "Alert" dialog again with the same text and I click OK.  This
happens four times in series.
5) I get a blank white screen in the browser.

Nothing crashes or negatively affects Firefox itself in any way.  It just
refuses to load the page.

I saw this problem with 1.0, it went away with 1.0.1, and is back with 1.0.4.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Basically just go to gmail.com and log in.

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4
and 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050614
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Bitt Faulk]

Yeah, I should point out that it only fails for me under Solaris.  Works fine
under Windows and MacOS.  Haven't tried any other Unices lately.  Specifically,
I'm using the contributed build at
<ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.4/contrib/firefox1.0.4-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.bz2>.
 I find it hard to believe that it could be a compile error, though.

Comment 3

[Bitt Faulk]

Damn.  I just installed the Translate extension, restarted, and now Gmail works.
 And I'd restarted it before, albeit without installing a new extension.  I have
no explanation.