23910 - Preferences Dialog is not modal like it should be

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[Claudius Gayle]

Edit|Preferences

The preferences window should be modal i.e. you should not be able to use another window
without first dismissing it.

moreover the pref to toggle this behavior does not work, that pref is:

user_pref("browser.prefs_window.modeless", false);

This bug is XP and was reproduced with 2000011313 builds

Comment 1

[Chris McAfee]

Over to ben

Comment 2

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

yup there was a crasher on Mac for modal dialogs, so I made it modeless until
that was fixed. Checking to see if that bug is fixed, and then I'll set this up
again...

Comment 3

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

holding a fix for this in my tree until M14 opening...

Comment 4

[Chris McAfee]

*** Bug 22447 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Chris McAfee]

m14

Comment 6

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

fix checked in...

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

verified as fixed on

linux, comm: 2000020209
winNT, non-comm: 2000020214
mac, non-comm: 2000020215

Comment 8

[leger]

Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component.  Pref UI 
component will be deleted.