216494 - [Mac] Preferences dialog should not be modal

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 206651

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Kevin Gerich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030806 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030806 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+

The preferences dialog is rendered as a sheet. The dialog is not document-modal
so it should not be rendered as a sheet.

From the AHIG: When Not to Use Sheets

    * Don’t use sheets for dialogs that apply to several windows. Sheets are
strictly intended to be used in situations when a particular dialog is
associated only with the window to which it is attached.

    * Sheets are not appropriate for modeless operations where the dialog should
be left open to allow the user to observe the effects of changes applied. Such
tasks (find and replace operations, for example) are better suited to modeless
dialogs, utility windows (palettes), or drawers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206651 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change