177622 - crash if I minimize the help window while at an about: screen

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Andre Monette]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

If I minimize the Help Contents while viewing an about: or about:plugins window,
Mozilla freezes. Sometimes Help can be minimized and resized without freezing
once but has always frozen the second time in a row.
Note: was also a problem in Windows ME.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter about: or about:plugins into the address line or access either from the
Help dropdown menu.
2. Open Help Contents from the Help menu.
3. Minimize Help Contents.
4. If this does not crash the system, resizing and minimizing the window again
will probably crash the system.

Actual Results:  
System is frozen but with mouse cursor still reacting. Mozilla can be shut down
using Alt-Ctrl-Del, but there is a noticeable delay between the pressing of
Alt-Ctrl-Del and the End Task menu appearing.  

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have minimized the window.

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

WFM, this is not a Help bug.
If it still crashes in recent nightlies, reopen and include a Talkback report ID
number.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Bug 184890 hangs when help window opened and minimized twice
seems to be the more general bug, so this could be marked as a dupe of that.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

v