223687 - can not switch to another tab if a HTTP password prompt is displayed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123913

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Mgz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7 (aebrahim)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7 (aebrahim)

I can switch to another tab if a HTTP password prompt is displayed. Firebird
should allow me to switch to another tab regardless password prompt.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have at least 2 tabs when navigating
2.In one tab, go to the sample URL.

Actual Results:  
The password prompt is displayed. Now there is IMPOSSIBLE TO SWITCH TO another
tab. You stuck :(

Expected Results:  
I can freely switch to another tab.Leave the password prompt behind in ITS OWN TAB.

Comment 1

[Mgz]

I think this one is similar to
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136205 , but I'm not really sure

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

in Mozilla too

Comment 3

[Dave]

In Bug 136205, the problem seems to be that an HTTP password prompt cannot be
given focus by clicking on the Mozilla window.  Here the problem is that the
HTTP password box, being a window-modal alert, blocks access to the original
window at all, and to other tabs in particular.

What we have here is a dupe of Bug 59314, "Alerts should be content-modal, not
window-modal."

Reporter, mark this a dupe if you agree.

Comment 4

[Dave]

Or perhaps more accurately, this may be a dupe of Bug 123913.  One or both of
those (it was never resolved to my satisfaction that they weren't the same
thing, and anyway, this sounds like it's the same problem mentioned in at least
one of them).  Any response to this or my last comment, reporter?

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123913 ***