482233 - If Your Internet Connection Dies, Firefox will not open.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ross Young]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7

When your internet connection dies, and you have to restart your router via the configuration 192.168.1.1, I have found that I'm having to use internet explorer as firefox will not load up. but as soon as i restart router it will kick up.

OnDown Time - Firefox doesnt work, would be great to have the accessability.

Regards
Ross


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open I.E
2.Restart Router
3.FireFox Works on reconnection to ethernet
Actual Results:  
Firefox will load up.

Expected Results:  
I should have been able to use Firefox to do this, instead of i.e

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you get this in the safemode ?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

This works for me..

Comment 2

[Ross Young]

Wouldnt have thought safe-mode would have been needed, was just posting to say it would be a nice fix to be able to use firefox when the internet connection is down, will try it tonight.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.