221780 - Crash if I open Tools -> Options, click on 'Get new extensions' and reopen Tools -> Options

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Rain Ööpik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 (20031008)

Thunderbird crashes after I try to open Tools->Options page twice.
Normally it isn't possible (new window won't open), but TB can be tricked to
open a new instance. After clicking a any link in TB Options window (ie. 'get
new extensions') browser window opens. When returning to TB main window and
opening Tools->Options, TB crashes instantly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Tools->Options
2. Select either Themes or Extensions tab
3. Click respectively on 'Download new themes' or 'Get new extensions'
4. Minimize browser window, go back to TB main window
5. Reopen Tools->Options

Occurs on freshly downloaded non-customized TB.
Reproduced on another WXP machine w/ IE6 browser.
Actual Results:  
TB shows good old "thunderbird.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close..."

Expected Results:  
TB shouldn't crash and the first instance of Options window should be focused.
Moreover - Options window should be modal (like in Mozilla Firebird).

AppName: thunderbird.exe	 AppVer: 1.5.20031.815	 ModName: gklayout.dll
ModVer: 1.5.20031.815	 Offset: 0013fbc2

Comment 1

[Dan M]

I still haven't built T-bird, sad for me, and I can't even figure out from
source where it opens the Help window. But F-bird's modal prefs window is a
problem. I'm guessing it's shared.

Firebird's prefs is a modal window. It can open a new browser window. That's a
problem combination. The new browsers would themselves be modal, but for the
window.opener.open hack. That doesn't really work. See the previous attempt to
use that in bug 87720, and more grief from the same thing in bug 161342. What
you want to do ... pshaw, what you want to do is make the prefs window not
modal. But barring that, you want to work around the problems of modal-on-modal
using the technique introduced in bug 195888.

Comment 2

[Jon Henry]

I can't reproduce this bug, perhaps due to mscott making the Options dialog
modal a couple months back. Rain, does this still happen in a recent T-bird
build, or is it no longer an issue?

Comment 3

[Mel Reyes]

I just started experiencing this with Mozilla suite beast build from a few
nights ago, no crash but prefs won't open and with the Firefox aviary build from
7/15, with firefox it freezes the browser completely.  Anyone else experiencing
this?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

at RC2 level - can't recreate the steps listed by reporter, and can't reproduce
crash.

request closing bug as resolved or invalid

Comment 5

[Jon Henry]

Agreed, this bug is not reproducable now that Tbird uses the new extension
manager. Marking WFM, please reopen if you can find some way to get this to
happen...