Closed Bug 487984 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Status Bar routinely and reproducibly blames wrong site for bad latency

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 487638

People

(Reporter: bmccann, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

If a web page includes a file from a domain that is not responding, then the status bar says "Waiting for ..." or "Transferring data from ...".  However, instead of listing the site that is hanging, it lists the last domain to have successfully transferred data.  I have demonstrated this in a very simple example on my website (http://www.benmccann.com/test/firefox-status-bar-lies.html).  This is a serious issue for those of us who run websites because I routinely see FireFox telling me a web page is loading slowly by blaming it on the wrong party.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to http://www.benmccann.com/test/firefox-status-bar-lies.html
Actual Results:  
Status bar says "Transferring data from www.google-analytics.com..."

Expected Results:  
Status bar should say "Transferring data from www.benmccann.com..."
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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