136903 - 0.9.9: cannot enter text in password dialog unless mozilla retains focus during SSL handshake

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103197

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Olegario Craig]

to recreate: open Mail/News window with an IMAP or IMAP/SSL account defined,
with password *not* saved in PSM. Click "Get messages". Now change focus to
another app altogether before the password dialog pops up, or (if it pops up
quickly) before clicking in the text entry field to actually type the password.
(You can also wait until Mac screensaver kicks in or other app demands focus on
its own.) Password dialog will pop up but you cannot focus on the text field in
order to type in the required password. You have to click "cancel" and then
reclick "Get messages", wait for the password dialog without switching away from
Mozilla Mail/News, and click into the text field when the dialog first appears;
only then will you be able to type the required password and complete the IMAP
login.

Here's why it's a problem: someone with an SSL connection over a slowish link
and/or accessing an IMAP spool with a large number of messages may experience
considerable delay before the password dialog actually appears, on the
order of several minutes. This bug means that the computer is not useable 
during that time, which is *extremely* frustrating as well as counterintuitive
to someone used to multitasking while waiting for network lag. (My test case
here is my wife, who is used to working in Photoshop while experiencing
World-Wide Wait.) My guess is that the described user likely represents a large
percentage of the total Mac userbase.

Comment 1

[Dr. David J. Knowles]

This fault also occurs for normal mail connections. I have a modem connection
and two mail servers. I tend to change the server in the mail preferences and
then get the mail for that server. If I do this the first password dialog which
appears I cannot enter text into. If I cancel the dialog and get the mail again
the password dialog works properly. This appears in 1.0rc2.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Olegario, what Build ID are you reporting this problem against? Can you still reproduce this problem 
using a current build?

Adding qawanted; I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of the dialog focus bug.

Comment 3

[Torben]

Note that mozilla is no longer supported on mac classic.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103197 ***