490671 - Browser stops loading pages after a passing problem with internet connection.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 397053

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Agata]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.8pre) Gecko/2009022317 Camino/2.0b2 (like Firefox/3.0.8pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.8pre) Gecko/2009022317 Camino/2.0b2 (like Firefox/3.0.8pre)

If I have quite a lot of pages loading when some passing problem with internet connection occurs (problem like VERY slow connection for about a minute), Camino stops loading the pages - it tries to load them, but never finishes. I can open some other pages, but they too start to load and never finish ("Loading..." in the status bar). I can see that the problem with internet connection is over, because the second browser again loads every page quickly. Camino doesn't. I have to restart (quit&run again) Camino to be able to view any page.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a lot of pages. At least 5. I don't use tabs, only new windows.
2. Do something to your internet connection, so you have really serious lags. Missing packets would do well.
3. Click on some links on the webpages. Browser shouldn't be able to load them easily, because of the connection lag.
4. Repair your internet connection.
5. Try to open some new webpages/click on some more link. Nothing should load, no links you clicked when the connection was slow and no links you clicked when it was good again.
6. Restart the browser, everything should load fine again.
Actual Results:  
I have no means to fake lags on my internet connection, but they actually happen from time to time without my trying. Almost always the problem repeats.

Expected Results:  
The browser should load the pages when the connection works again or AT LEAST load the new pages, clicked after the connection works again.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

What version of Flash are you running? I know this sounds like a silly question, but humour me ;)

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

Are there any messages in the console log (Applications/Utilities/Console.app) at the moment when such a problems happens ?

Comment 3

[Agata]

Sorry, I forgot one important detail: I have ALWAYS "Block flash animations" active. I know of the flash plug-in problem :) Had experienced it at the begining ;)
Flash version is: File name: Flash Player.plugin Shockwave Flash 9.0 r151
I sometimes run a single, selected flash object on a site, but rarely. I'm quite sure my problem also happend while no flash was running.
Other preferences are rather standard.
I will check the console log next time this problem occurs and write a comment.

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Sorry, I forgot one important detail: I have ALWAYS "Block flash animations"
> active. I know of the flash plug-in problem :) Had experienced it at the
> begining ;)
> Flash version is: File name: Flash Player.plugin Shockwave Flash 9.0 r151

Flashblock only prevents display of Flash, not the loading (which is when the leak happens), and I believe that version of Flash is old enough to suffer from the file descriptor leak, so I'd suggest updating Flash as a first step.

Comment 5

[Agata]

OK, from this moment it's: File name: Flash Player.plugin Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22

I will write another comment if the problem repeats itself. As my internet connection problems occur almost daily (worst ISP ever...) I will also wirte, if after some time nothing happens.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Agata, have you seen this at all since the end of April?

Comment 7

[Agata]

Not at all. I wanted to wait until end of May to be sure, but it looks like it really was flash's fault.

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Duping to that bug, then.