299769 - Alert pop-up for "The document contains no data" does not identify itself or the document.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Joe Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Sometimes, 1800 seconds after viewing a page on CNN, an alert pops up, stealing
keyboard/mouse focus.

It is very disconcerting.  The alert came from a browser window that had been
minimized or put in the background, which means it had nothing to do with what
was currently going on in the foreground.  What is causing it?  Why is it
stealing keyboard/mouse focus?  What can be done to satisfy the alert?

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
1) The title is "Alert".  It does _not_ identify itself as being from Firefox.
2) "The document contains no data" does not identify which document (URL) it is.


Expected Results:  
Pop-ups, expecially asynchronous ones that can occur many seconds or minutes
after the last mouse click, should identify which application they belong to.

"The document contains no data" could be caused by unexpected server behavior in
fetching *.css, *.js, or images.  The error message should show which URL
triggered the unexpected behavior.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 159324?

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

Yes.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159324 ***

Comment 3

[Joe Smith]

Core bug 159324 addresses only Actual Results item 2 (the URL should be
displayed).  It does not address item 1, that being that the alert does not
identify the application it belongs to.  This problem usually shows up while I'm
editing a file with all other windows minimized; the alert pops up and gives no
indication as to which application caused it.

The fix is really simple: Just add the word "Firefox" to the text or title bar.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

The alerts will be off by default in Firefox 1.1, xul error pages are the
replacement. There may be plans to remove the alert boxes.

Comment 5

[Michele Ashley]

This is very annoying. Sometimes I have to reclick a link several times in order
to get where I want to go. 

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is probably WONTFIX given the new error pages.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, indeed.  Or rather, fixed.  The error page tells you exactly what you were trying to load.

Comment 9

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

->WORKSFORME would seem more appropriate as no patch has been identified here...

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Honestly, if you want to look up the CVS log to see what bug error pages landed in, be my guest.  The above comments identify the patch sufficiently that anyone who cares can look it up...

Comment 11

[Jason Bassford]

FWIW: I agree that this should be WORKSFORME also. (Although I won't change it.)  I don't see any comments identifying a patch that would point me there.