217534 - Print dialog repeatedly steals focus when printing many mail messages

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Printing, defect)

Description

[Robert MacDowell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I printed about 25 emails of 2-3 pages length each, then paged away to a 
Mozilla browser screen to do work.  The mail software kept stealing focus to 
inform me that a print job had started, intercepting the typing I was trying to 
do into a form box.  I worried that my typing might be intercepted by the print 
dialog resulting in something unintended happening.   Why does it need to pop 
25 dialogs up?  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Mail, select about 20-50 mail messages. 
2. Go File/Print... and hit OK.
3. Switch to a Mozilla web browser screen.
4. Try to fill out a form. 

Actual Results:  
I waited until the dialogs stopped popping up and went back to work. 

Expected Results:  
On large numbers of print jobs, do only one popup or none at all. Perhaps have 
the popup note progress but don't have it claim focus on every print job.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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