timeout instead of connection refused (firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.15)

[Anders Gavare]

Hi,

I just upgraded from FreeBSD/amd64 8.0-BETA2 to 8.0-RC2, and wiped
clean /usr/local and /var/db/pkg completely. Then I installed GNOME,
Xorg, and Firefox 3.5.3 from packages at ftp.freebsd.org (8-stable).

Firefox behaves very strangely. When connecting to 127.0.0.1, I expect
an immediate Connection refused. That is where I route lots of ad/spam
hosts using /etc/hosts. Instead of refusing the connection, Firefox
waits forever. (I am assuming it will timeout, eventually.)

This seems to be the same in Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.15 (in the case of
3.0.15, I installed from ports, not package). However, when I run
Epiphany, it immediately sees that 127.0.0.1 says connection refused.

Is this a known problem with the Firefox package(s) in FreeBSD 8 at the
moment?


Anders