12077 - Bringing up a Javascript alert() from a dialog leads to lockup.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, defect, P3)

Description

[Syd Logan]

Bringing up a xul or html dialog which has a button that, when clicked, displays
a javascript alert() will lead to a hang when you try doing a window.close() on
the window/dialog that was used to launch the alert (the alert itself dimisses
fine).

To reproduce, bring up resource:/res/samples/dexopenchrome.xul, click on the
HTML dialog button (no need to select any checkboxes, defaults work fine), click
on the Show Alert button at the bottom of the dialog, dismiss the alert, then
click on the OK button in the html dialog to dimiss it. But, it hangs. Closing
the dialog using the Windows close box does work, however.

This is a dogfood blocker.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

(adding myself to cc: list)

Comment 2

[Dan M]

Return of son of refcounting problem. Would that all refcounting mistakes were so visible.