24169 - While downloading a file, New browser windows do not open

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32554

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P2)

Description

[WD]

Overview Description:
While downloading a file, when a new Navigator Window is opened, it doesn't
come up until the file has completed downloading.

Steps to Reproduce:
Load Up Mozilla
Start downloading a file.   (I used:   http://www.bpftp.com/cgi-bin/closest.cgi
Hit Ctrl-N or use the File menu to open a new Navigator Window

Actual Results:
The new window is not opened up until the file has completed downloading

Expected Results:
The new window opens up, while the file continues to download.

Build Date and Platform:
Mozilla build 2000011608
Win95

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

Confirmed that New windows do not open during file download. 

With 2000-01-31-09-M14 on WinNT, they do not open after download, either,
and while the browser can be used afterward, it crashes on exit (the
console window hangs at a WEBSHELL=- line until it is killed, then the
menory Mozilla used comes back.

This must be a known issue by now...

Comment 2

[leger]

Moving all open "[e-mail]" assignee bugs to "[e-mail]" to 
review.

Comment 3

[leger]

Moving from leger to eng.

Comment 4

[Eric Vaughan]

This is an xpapp issue. It has nothing to do with the progress meter widget 
itself.

Comment 5

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

This causes Linux moz to freeze up (forcing you to kill it off with a ctrl-c) so
I'm upping the severity to critical.

Build id: 2000022415 Linux

Comment 6

[don]

Bill, is this OUR bug?

Comment 7

[don]

Many times you CAN get a new browser window, you just have to be persistant. :-)

Bill, will this bug be taken care of with the rewrite of the file downloading
code that you already started?

Comment 8

[Bill Law]

This is a dup of some or all of the various "download sucks" bugs.  I'm 
resolving it as a dup of the one Tom opened fresh yesterday (32544).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32544 ***

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

didja mean bug 32554...? :-)

Comment 10

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

dup...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32554 ***

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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