26712 - browser hangs on second alert dialog box

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Overview Description: 

The second time Mozilla needs to display an alert dialog box it hangs.  The
second dialog box doesn't appear, and I can't access the application menus.  I
am sometimes able to click on the "stop" button, but subsequently I can't reload
the page or access another page via the location bar or the open page menu item.

The dialog boxes don't have to be web-page-generated.  For example, the dialog
box mozilla puts up on startup when i am offline and it tries to load my start
page from the net counts as the first dialog box.  The test case I am attaching
to this bug tries to put up five dialog boxes, although I haven't been able to
get past the second dialog box.  This problem has existed on the last several
linux nightlies.

Build Date & Platform Bug Found: 

Linux 2000-02-04-08

Additional Builds and Platforms Tested On: 

none

Additional Information: 

none

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Attachment: test case with five alert boxes

Comment 2

[cbegle]

On Win 98, all five dialogs popped up and the browser did not hang.
Build 2000020414.

Comment 3

[Richard Zach]

Reassigning to dialogs. Note: Almost the same symptoms as bug 21596.

Comment 4

[Richard Zach]

mscott, who so valiantly fixed the very similar bug 25833, and paulmac, who also
hates bug 21596, added to cc: list

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

any chance the mozilla nightlies for linux having been properly getting pushed 
out with the latest drops? The symptoms sound so much like Bug #25833 it's 
scary..but we know that's fixed now...hmmm

Comment 6

[Paul MacQuiddy]

I see this on commercial linux build also, but not on commercial windows builds
of 2/7.

Comment 7

[davidm]

Dan loves these bugs.

Comment 8

[Paul MacQuiddy]

probably a manifestation of bug 26283? I see this also with the customize 
sidebar dialogue, the third time causes problems on linux

Comment 9

[Dan M]

myk's test case above works for me today. There's been some recent work improving 
stability in Linux alerts. Could be we caught this one while we were at it.

Comment 10

[Paul MacQuiddy]

marking verified, this looks fixed here also. Tried with other dialogues also. I 
still see the problem with the sidebar customization dialogue hanging for a long 
time the 3rd time you try to open it, only on linux. Will open separate bug on 
that.