490235 - "Transferring data from <sitename>" with Flex and AJAX

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[josamoto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Sometimes when using RemoteObject requests, and also AJAX requests from Firefox, a response is returned to the browser, everything perfect...but...the statusbar does not update.

It keeps on displaying "Transferring data from ...". Upon reading a couple of forum posts, it appears that this has been happening from way back already, I'm talking a couple of 1/2 years here.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Flash.swf application and embed in an HTML file.
2. Make a RemoteObject call from within your SWF.
Actual Results:  
The statusbar never updates "Transferring data from...", even on successful responses, however, switching to one tab and returning will have the status bar properly updated.

Expected Results:  
The status bar should display "Done" when all AJAX / RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) have finished.

Comment 1

[hasari_tosun]

I do reproduce the same issue in following scenario:

Steps:
   1) Create a simple YUI Dialog and display.
           ex: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/container/simpledialog/
   2) Add an image to the DOM after the dialog from a DIFFERENT site:
            var tag = "<img src='" + uri + "'/>";
            document.body.innerHTML += tag; //also used appendChild.
Actual Results: The image call change the status bar text to "Transferring data from <server>".

Expected Results: The text on the status bar should be "Done"

Comment 2

[Theo]

I can reproduce this bug too:

Some time after the page has loaded (Done is displayed in the status bar) run the following code in the Flash app:

var loader : URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.load(new URLRequest("http://www.google.com"));

The status bar will now read "Transferring data from www.google.com..." even though all data has finished loading long ago. It never clears unless you switch to another tab and then switch back.

Comment 3

[Theo]

I should add that I've seen this bug in all versions of Firefox that I have tried, that includes most versions between 2 and 3.5.2, but if my memory serves me right it's in all previous versions too.

Comment 4

[kimb]

Just tested for this issue with Firefox 3.6 B4 and Flash 10.1 Beta plugin.

It still shows 'Transferring data from ....'.

Someone really needs to fix this.

Comment 6

[Edward Tanguay]

You can recreate this bug with Silverlight as well with this code: 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2637197/how-to-get-firefox-to-not-continue-to-show-transferring-data-from-in-browser

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in a fresh profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). Also update your plugins (flash, adobe reader, java, quicktime, silverlight, etc.) Go to the developer's website and download the latest version from there. If you no longer see this issue, please close this bug as RESOLVED, WORKSFORME. If you do see the bug, please post a comment.

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, 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.