The modal alert dialogs informing of a failed connection or failed finding of a host are really annoying in 4.x, and it seems we're doing the same thing in Mozilla. Can we not point to a webpage instead? I'll do the design of the webpage if someone is willing to add the back end stuff to load it.

should not be that difficult... the trickier part is doing it correctly. We need to throw the content of this "failed page" without updating the location bar. cc'ing radha for her comments.

->help wanted

*** Bug 53412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Updating platform/OS to all. NOTE: If it's feasible, let this be an option (have a "I know so don't ever show it to me again") so that it doesn't get too annoying like ns4.7.5. This would be particularly useful for people with dialup connections as the most likely cause of this error would be that you're not connected to the internet - you don't need an alert to tell you that.

*** Bug 58749 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Could the errors land in the sidebar?

*** Bug 71572 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I think they should not land in the sidebar as: - there would direct connection between the error cause and the result display for the enduser - the sidebar can be hidden or closed The content area would be the best place to show a failed page load in plain language terms.

Original side bar spec had support for some sort of flashing notification, and we're mostly talking about non fatal errors, including images and scripts and other inline objects that fail to load.

I think this bug is a duplicate of bug 28586, "[RFE] Should use error page, not dialog, for inaccessible pages". If loading an image from a non-existent website still results in an alert, bug 58749 should be reopened to cover that case.

Open Networking bugs, qa=tever -> qa to me.

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 (you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've moved)

-> docsehll dupe. qa -> default *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***