106017 - Help disables Account Settings dialog

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 99284

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Calin Dumitrescu]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012
BuildID:    2001101202

Opening the help window with the Help button disables the Account Settings
dialog (all widgets don't respond to clicks). The dialog is re-enabled when the
help windows is closed.

Other oddity: The Account Settings dialog, when active, disables scrollbars in
unrelated Mozilla browser windows. However, scrolling is possible with the
cursor keys. It also disables some HTML form elements.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open task Mail&News (Ctrl-2)
2. Click menu: Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings
3. Push "Help" button (lower-right corner in the dialog)
4. Switch back to Acct. Settings dialog and try to click on things. You see it's
disabled.
5. Close Help. You see the dialog is re-enabled.

Expected Results:  The Account Settings dialog should be freed of these mode
dependencies.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Why exactly is the help window modal??

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

hmm.. Duplicate of "Help window is modal"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99284 ***

Comment 3

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.