448380 - server not found when try to open in a new tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[samir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; fr; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; fr; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

the probleme is ,many many times when i want to open a site in a new tab it give me that server not found like if the site i have opened doesn't exist ,but when i update the page it work !
example: when i want to connect to hotmail.com i wrote my login and my password and then i push "connexion" but it told me that it's not workin or server not found but when i push update the page it work and it can connect to my mail..
and i observe this in mozilla firefox 3 specially ,not in mozilla firefox 2 many many times,not only with hotmail.com but with many other sites

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.when i open specialy a new tab
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Actual Results:  
server not found

Expected Results:  
it should give me the page of web site and not tell me server not found,so i downgrade my mozilla firefox to 2 edition to not have this problem,

i think that the browser doesn't take time to have a response from the web site wich we are looking for

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Not a security problem.

Speaking of security bugs, you appear to be using version 2.0.0.11 which is vulnerable to several known security bugs: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox20.html

This problem tends to be because the number of available connections is exhausted, and the browser engine can't tell the difference between a site really not existing and other reasons it's temporarily not reachable. The new Firefox 3 has increased the number of available connections which might help this problem, and as a bonus would contain fixes for the security bugs in the link I gave earlier.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Samir, do you still see this problem when using firefox 3?  Are you running screen reader software?

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

No response from reporter.

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