193308 - Offline: HomePage conflicts with 'Work Offline' checkbox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; da-DK; rv:1.3b; MultiZilla v1.1.33 (a)) Gecko/20030213
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; da-DK; rv:1.3b; MultiZilla v1.1.33 (a)) Gecko/20030213

If you have set Navigator to start up with a home page, and then upon startup
select 'Work Offline' in the profile selector dialogue, you get a warning
dialogue saying that this page cannot be displayed while working offline.

Problem is,
1) the 'OK' button doesn't work, so you can't dismiss it
2) the dialogue seems to be drawn before the browser window


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set mozilla up to open a new navigator window displaying a home page at startup
2. you need to have at least 2 profiles
3. in the dialogue box for selecting a profile upon startup, check 'Work Offline'
4. start Mozilla proper

Actual Results:  
1) no navigator window is displayed
2) it's impossible to dismiss the warning dialogue
3) it's impossible to open any navigator window at all
4) all other component from the window menu are available and working
5) none of the other mozilla components are able to open an URL in navigator
6) only way to get navigator back is to restart mozilla

Expected Results:  
1) dismissed the dialogue box upon clicking the 'OK' button
2) checked for an old version of the home page in the cache and displayed that

Comment 1

[James Ross]

WFM using 1.3b (2003021008) on Windows 2000 - it loaded the cached version
without any complaints.

Mac only? Related to MultiZilla?

Comment 2

[jacqui Owens]

can I get perodic bug checks even if I know NOT of a bug on my PC? & is so, 
How? thank you

Comment 3

[HJ]

Bjarn, is this still a problem?

Comment 4

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

wfm with 1.6 release - but now we'we got bug 229763
sorry about not keeping up with my reported bugs :-(

Comment 5

[benc]

REOPEN: this is still a problem

Comment 6

[Mac OS X Angel]

You need to empty cache before trying to replicate the problem, otherwise
Mozilla will may your homepage out of cache.

If you look under the Window menu, there is "Window" and "Alert" at the very
bottom. Choose "Alert", then press Return on your keyboard.

The steps to replicate the problem are:
1. Run Mozilla
2. Click Mozilla > Preferences > Advanced > Cache
3. Click Empty Cache
4. Click OK to clear the Preferences window
5. Click File > Work Offline
6. Quit Mozilla
7. Launch Mozilla

The problem seems to be that a blocking alert (sheet?) is appearing, but may be
attached to the ".hidden" window, instead of being displayed after a new window
is opened.

When you choose Window > Alert and press return, you bring the hidden alert
forwards, then clear it. Mozilla then progresses as it should.

And, yes it is still a problem, in Mozilla 1.7.

Comment 7

[Benedikt Waldvogel]

much more confusing:

I edited my /chrome/browser.jar::/content/browser/browser.xul and removed the
"Work Offline" item within the "File" Menu.
Homepage was set to "about:blank"

after starting firefox, the url bar is unusable.
setting the homepage to something like "http://www.example.com", the url bar is
working.

Reproducable: Always!

ps: may it is a own bug?

System: SuSE Linux (9.0), 2.4 kernel
Browser: Firefox PR (0.10), xft+gtk2, clean installation

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

We have an error page now. No dialog does come up anymore. WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b5pre) Gecko/20090427 Shiretoko/3.5b5pre ID:20090427031112