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(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) from comment #0)
> This progress dialog workaround was introduced in 2003

When you added the comments to the source code, presumably that was because of this pre-existing comment as shown in your commit:

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/24a95294f600d50960d388151fa1e8d28d0474ba#l4.264

That may look like it was added in 2003:

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/31e49513d60cb80be01623887744d186550778b6

but FWIW it actually dates back to the very first commit Blake made for what would become the Firefox source code:

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blame/bb05882143e9cfc8a999dec03820ec559b6738d1/browser/base/content/browser.js#L2056

That code in turn appears to have been copied from the Mozilla Suite code:

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?q=will+layout+before+the+content+window+and+a+crash+will+occur

So anyway, uh, no, I didn't manage to bug up that would shed any more light on this.

(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) from comment #0)
> This progress dialog workaround was introduced in 2003

When you added the comments to the source code, presumably that was because of this pre-existing comment as shown in your commit:

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/24a95294f600d50960d388151fa1e8d28d0474ba#l4.264

That may look like it was added in 2003:

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/31e49513d60cb80be01623887744d186550778b6

but FWIW it actually dates back to the very first commit Blake made for what would become the Firefox source code:

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blame/bb05882143e9cfc8a999dec03820ec559b6738d1/browser/base/content/browser.js#L2056

That code in turn appears to have been copied from the Mozilla Suite code:

https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/search?q=will+layout+before+the+content+window+and+a+crash+will+occur

So anyway, uh, no, I didn't manage to dig up a bug that would shed any more light on this.