1857432 - Confirm/alert box disappears when tab moved to different window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1754759

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[skophek]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. open some page that shows confirm/alert box and let it display (e.g. https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_alert)
2. move tab to another window

Actual results:

alert box + overlay disappears, can't click to anything on the page

Expected results:

alert box stays

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Win32' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Ray Kraesig [:rkraesig]]

Confirmed on Nightly 120.0a1 (2023-09-29).

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:dao, could you have a look please?

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Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Would be good to know if this was always broken or it regressed at some point.

Comment 5

[Alice0775 White]

The defect #1(alert box disappears) since Firefox4.0.

Regression window for defect #1:
The defect #1 has existed since tab modal dialogs were implemented.

Regressed by: Bug 59314

Whereas, the defect #2(Clicking, keyboard input, and even context menus are not possible in the content area.) the following regression window.

Regression window for defect #2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=3598f96a099133837aa78b6c018ff74ca522e36b&tochange=c5654880057a9011c0d743322b11d2d115ea5fae

Suspect: Bug 1680637

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1680637

:mtigley, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1680637, could you take a look? Also, could you set the severity field?

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Comment 7

[:Gijs (out for now; he/him)]

This is basically a dupe of bug 1754759 I think?