206340 - Non-functional bookmark toolbar after clicking in the Help -> About popup window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 170499

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marc Randolph]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Using MozFirebird 0.6 milestone.  Appears limited to Fb, presumably because
Mozilla doesn't produce a pop-up when the user selects Help -> about.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click Help -> About Mozilla Firebird (which fires a pip-up)
2. click on "Copyright and contributor information" in the pop-up window


Actual Results:  

A new browser window (or what appears to be one) opens and displays basicly the
same information that the pop-up displayed.  Web browsing appears to work fine
in this window, but the bookmark tool bar does not.

The pop-up window also does not go away, and use of the original browser window
is blocked until this new browser window is closed.

Expected Results:  

Bookmark tool bar should work.

There also doesn't seem to be a good reason for blocking usage of the original
browser window until the new window is closed.


This behavior does NOT reproduce if you go to the same place by typing "about: ".

Is this pop-up window even necessary?

Comment 1

[noririty]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170499 ***

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

mass-verifying