336470 - browser keeps the current content and won't load the futureshop URL

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Wenqing Jiang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060503 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060503 Firefox/1.5.0.4

see the steps

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit www.yahoo.com, the yahoo page shows up
2. visit www.futureshop.ca, the browser loads the page and won't display - the yahoo page still remains.
3.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060503 Minefield/3.0a1
and with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060428 Firefox/1.5.0.3 

Comment 2

[Wenqing Jiang]

I'm now using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060428 Firefox/1.5.0.3.  The problem happens to at least two URLs:

www.futureshop.ca
www.xvid.org

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Can't reproduce the problem. Have you also tried it in Firefox's safe-mode or with a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 4

[Wenqing Jiang]

the safe-mode produced the same problem.  However the problem
can't be reproduced on another machine (using normal mode).
I'll try to reinstall FF on the machine the produced the problem.
Just a while ...

Comment 5

[Wenqing Jiang]

hmmm... I tried my best but the problem still exists.  I removed the
FF files, find and clear any Windows registry that contains the word
FireFox, clear the related application data maintained by Windows (so
the bookmarks and profiles are also gone), and I guess I've cleared
all the trace of FF.  Then I download a new FF and the problem still
appears.

However I don't have any problem on another computer!

Please cancel the bug - it looks like the problem is not intrinsic
to FF.

Comment 6

[Steve England [:stevee]]

--> INVALID as per comment 5

Comment 7

[Wenqing Jiang]

I've switched to FF 2.0 for quite some time now and never found the problem.
I'm marking it as worksforme.  Thanks.