57867 - Only show timeout error dialog for main document, not objects

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28586

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Ari Heitner]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.16 i686)
BuildID:    2000101805

On a page like the Washington Post front page, if doubleclick is having a bad
day, you may get the popup (and be forced to hit "ok") quite a few times as JS
tries again and again to load an ad for you.

The popup is fine for pages explicitly entered by the user, but shouldn't happen
on other pages. The message should probably show up in the statusbar (without
interrupting the user).

Reproducible any time doubleclick is busy :)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to washingtonpost.com
2. usually you have to choose an article to read
3. watch in helpless pleasure as the script tries and fails to load an    ad,
time afer time after time

Actual Results:  The end user got annoyed by the extraneous popups warning me
about pages i don't care about

Expected Results:  i should have been quietly notified about the failures.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Confirming. This could be considered a duplicate of bug 28586, depending on how 
quickly bug 28586 gets fixed.

Comment 2

[hangas]

Sending this design feedback bug to Networking

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

added keyword arch.

Comment 4

[Gagan]

->neeti

Comment 5

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 6

[benc]

We have other bugs on this site so I have used it on various occassions, but not
seen this problem (we either share our contributors with their viewers or this
site has a lot of problems...)

At any rate, since this problem is somewhat well understood but not easy to
reproduce, I would like to mark it a duplicate, based on mpt's previous comments.

Comment 7

[Ari Heitner]

I'll buy mpt's dup, as long as 28586 gets fixed in a reasonable way for this. 
i.e. I don't want a whole page killed and replaced by a bloody IE-style "HTTP 
404" page if only one element on the page fails to respond. The correct 
behaviour is "show the working parts of a page, and show the error in a 
sidebar, if it's open" or something like that. If a frame dies, the error can 
be shown in-frame; that way if a single-frame page dies you get the IE 
behaviour (seems reasonable to me).

It's hard to reproduce because the DoubleClick guys have a lot invested in 
keeping their stuff working :) It's also possible in the like 9 months since I 
filed this that their stuff works quite a bit better than it used to...

Comment 8

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

moving neeti's futured bugs for triaging.

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

marking as dupe 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***

Comment 10

[benc]

VERIFIED: there is also a supress secondary URL get errors bug, but this is
close enough.