602159 - Browser freezes when you drag a tab

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom G]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When you drag a tab to another location, IE to reorder it, and at the same time another tab is loading that prompts for a password (not a <form> password, but a built in username/password dialogue) then the browser freezes/behaves weirdly until you press the escape key.

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
Given priority to the drag event and not the password dialogue

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, Firefox 4.0.1 has been released, and it features significant improvements over previous releases. Can you please update to Firefox 4.0.1 or later, and retest your bug? Please also create a fresh profile (
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles), update your plugins (Flash, Java, Quicktime, Reader, etc) and update your graphics driver and Operating system to the latest versions available. 

If you still continue to see this issue, please comment. If you do not, please close this bug as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME

filter: prefirefox4uncobugs

Comment 2

[Ursan Marius Bogdan]

Windows XP SP2, running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0a2) Gecko/20120307 Firefox/12.0a2, this behavior is still present, one can`t drag tabs to a different position if a site has an password dialogue activated. But i was not able to reproduce the freeze while the dialogue was active.