179306 - Sheet being displayed blocks other windows from loading pages

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Avi Drissman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021029 Chimera/0.5+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021029 Chimera/0.5+

If a window has a sheet attached to it, no other pages will load.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two windows.
2. In window A, in the location bar, type "javascript:alert("blah");" and press
return. That window will get a sheet. Leave the sheet.
3. In window B, type in any site's address in the location bar. Press return.

Actual Results:  
Watch as window B is stuck at "Loading...". Wait forever if you want; it gets
nowhere. As soon as you close the sheet on window A, window B loads.

Expected Results:  
Window B's loading shouldn't be affected by window A's sheet.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using Chimera/2002110804 on 10.1.5. It WorksForMe using
FizzillaCFM/2002110808.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Yeah, this is bad.

Comment 3

[Jasper]

I can reproduce this bug using the 200311 NB's.

Comment 4

[Derek Schrock]

Confirming comment #3

Comment 5

[S Woodside]

reassigning sfraser bugs to pinkerton

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

btw, i spoke with conrad, that's how the nsIPrompt methods work by definition.
there is only 1 ui thread in gecko and any gecko prompt from nsIPrompt will
block loading on all other gecko instances.

take it up with the gecko guys if you want this to change, it's not anything we
can solve in camino. works as designed.

Comment 7

[Avi Drissman]

Fair, I understand that. But then, why does it work in Firefox? It has a sheet
too for Javascript alerts.

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This works for me. I can load pages in window 2 while window 1 has a JS alert
showing.