195469 - Open Web Location does not correctly handle invalid protocol : error window cannot be closed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Valette]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Open the "Open Web Location" Popup window (CTRL L) and enter an invalid protocol
(e.g hxxp://foo.bar.com). You get a popup with an error message saying that the
protoclol is unknown which is fine but you cannot close the popup. NB :A similar
bug has already been closed when clicking on an invalid web link directly...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.File->Open Web Location
2. enter hxxp://foo.bar.org
3. Try to clode the popoup

Actual Results:  
Impossible to close the opoup

Expected Results:  
Close th popup window

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

This happens to me to build Linux 2003022705
my CVS GTK2/XFT build is fine

Comment 2

[Steve Rawlins]

I'm running Mozilla 1.5, described under "Help/About Mozilla" as:

 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I stumbed across the error in which the Alert box cannot be closed & you are
effectively shut-out of Mozilla (I have to go to Task Manager and kill the
process and start all over)

I have tried various combinations of the Open Web Location dialogue
(Ctrl-Shift-L) and, after around 10 tries, can consistently lock-up Mozilla just
by typing-in non-existent URLs.  I cannot determine what finally triggers the
failure - whether it is number of tries, length of the URL, pattern of URL name
... but in anycase, I can reliably reach the point (in under 2 minutes of
trying) at which the Alert box pops-up ("xxx could not be found.  Please check
name and try again.") and cannot be closed.

At this point, clicking OK on the Alert pop-up does nothing - i.e. the box just
flickers & stays up on my screen

Comment 3

[Fabian Guisset]

Eric does this still happen in recent builds? Thanks in advance!

Comment 4

[Eric Valette]

No it seems to be fixed now but as I now compile myself to use GTK2+XFT+calendar...

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

No patch/bug specified that fixed things.
->WORKSFORME