103540 - If you switch msg while a URL is loading, the URL will never open

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Håkan Waara]

build: 2001-10-04, Windows 98.

If you click a URL in a message, and switch message, the URL won't open. So you
need to wait for the URL to open in a browser window before you change message.

Comment 1

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Is this really a nsbeta1+, P2? If yes, then we need to try and targeted to a
milestone M1.0 or earlier to make the beta.

Comment 2

[Peter Trudelle]

ADT triage team needs info: Does the browser get stuck in this state?  Can you
reocver, or is there any workaround?

Comment 3

[laurel]

Using feb20 commercial trunk, win98: 
I tried various links and found there were two general results:
1.   The link never opened at all in browser, browser stayed on the previous
page (or none if no browser window was open) and no problem, no throbber. 
Downloading didn't really engage.
2.   If a link was clicked and mail window progress bar showing downloading for
awhile then I selected another message, the browser continued to load the url
and if I waited it eventually showed up or timed out/errored. In these kind of
cases, I could stop the downloading in the browser window with a Stop.

Maybe hwaara has more information, but from what I see there is no unworkable
situation here.

Comment 4

[Håkan Waara]

There's not really much information to report here, the bug is simple to
reproduce; click a link and while the link is trying to find a browser window to
load in, click on another message.  The operation will be canceled out.

Comment 5

[laurel]

Thanks. That's what I saw, but I didn't know if you had seen something more than
that. Just checking.

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

removing milestone until this is retriaged.

Comment 7

[Michael Buckland]

Discussed in 2/26 bug meeting with Mktg Engineering and PjM.  Decision was to
nsbeta1 minus and move to 1.2.

Comment 8

[Gilbert Fang]

oh, I exam it with.
Mozilla 1.1b nightly build 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020901

I found that if the user moves the mouse too quickly to switch the message,
mozilla will think it is the drag action but not a click. In solris, I tried
several times, every time I found that the mouse cursor is changed into a drag
cursor, the browser  will not open, otherwise, it will open. 
So I do not think it is a really bug. 

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla 1.2 alpha is long gone.
No action since Sep. 2002, not blocked by another bug.
If seen by anyone (most specifically including you, Håkan) in a recent build, please speak up.

Comment 10

[Håkan Waara]

Still reproducible on Thunderbird 3.0 alpha on Windows XP, I think. 

Since my computer today is many times faster than the one I used on 2001, you have to be really quick to reproduce it.

Comment 11

[Richard Cunningham]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from stoccompkathabs1972.