Closed Bug 243683 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Browser blocked when cookie confirmation window appears while moving bookmark

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 100180

People

(Reporter: ma, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: hang)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Accessing a page with a cookie, I wanted to move a bookmark from one of my
folders to another.
Suddendly the cookie confirmation window appeared (as I setup it to do so) and
the browser was totally blocked (see details).
Trying things like Ctrl +W... I found that opening a new Broser and then right
click+close in the Windows(r) toolbar was the only way to close all Mozilla windows.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set cookie preferences to "warn"
2. Be sure to have at least a folder a cookie inside your bookmarks
3. open a page
4. in a second tab open a second page that needs cookie confirmation
5. BEFORE the confirmation window for cookie appears click on your bookmar icon
in the Mozilla toolbar and move one of your bookmark
6. When the cookie window appears, the browser is blocked

Actual Results:  
Unable to click anywhere;
Unable to close the confirmation cookie window
Unable to close the browser
Unable to close with Ctrl+W or right click+close in the Windows bar


Expected Results:  
I should have been able to confirm (or infirm) my decision in the cookie
confirmation window instead of being blocked.
When you say move I assume you mean drag and drop?

If so, it sounds like D&D should be somehow preventing other modal event loops
being pushed while it's active or something....
Welcome to my oldest still open bug, bug 14716. I'm not closing this as a
duplicate because that one doesn't mention modality and because the consequences
described here are worse, but it's the same bug.

This is a tough one. A proper fix has eluded us for years.
Depends on: 14716
Severity: normal → critical
Keywords: hang
The other way to fix this is to make window deactivation kill capturing and
other stateful operations. On Windows the WM_CANCELMODE message is provided for
this purpose. Needless to say we ignore it, which causes e.g. bug 97014.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100180 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Brower blocked when cookie confirmation window appears while moving bookmark → Browser blocked when cookie confirmation window appears while moving bookmark
V.Duplicate
Severity: critical → normal
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
No longer depends on: 14716
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