272980 - Problem occurs when running 2 windows of firefox an action on the first window can block the other window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257121

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Stefan Constantin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

What happened in my case is that when I try to save an image to disk in the
first window but just leave it hanging when it asks me where to save it ... in
that moment my second window (I specifically mean window not tab.. I haven't
tried with tabs) partially hangs .. meaning that it doesn't connect to other
websites or show me page properties and has very little functionality .

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start 2 windows of firefox and browse to any page on both of them (diffrent
pages or the same it doesn't matter)
2. Click on the first window on an image on the page and select save Image as
3. When the popo up wich asks you where to save appears leave it like that
(don't save it) and then go to the seccond window
4. Try to browse another page on the second window or to view the page
property/source or whatever and it won't work
5. Go to the first window and save or discard the image and you will see that on
the second window it imeadeatly started to do all the things that it was
previously instructed to as in surf to anothr page, show you properties and page
source or whatever

Actual Results:  
It's all explained in the steps and details

Expected Results:  
I suppose that one window should never interfere with the other no matter what
happens (unless of course the whole firefox procces crashes :))

One thing I would like to add is that I've recently installed an addon
(developer add on) and I have no idea if it worked fine before. I suspect the
problem is still from firefox because I didn't use in this test any buttons
related to the developer plugin i've installed

Comment 1

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

I can reproduce this on todays trunk:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041219
Firefox/1.0+

It isn't limited to saving an image - when any windows file selector is open in
one window other windows are enabled and you can perform actions such as
scrolling them, keying in fom values etc. but do not allow links to be followed
and many other functions fail.

I would expect all windows of the application to be completely inactive whilst a
modal dialog is open from any window.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Stefan Constantin]

Because this bug was about to expire ... I retested the behaviour with firefox
1.04 .. and the bug is still there .. I'll try an easier expliantion now.

Open a firefox window .. browse to any website .. left click on an image and
select "Save As". Now a dialog windows will appear asking for the destination of
the saved file... leave this windows and the original firefox window for now and
open another firefox window ... try to browse to any website .. or saving any
image (if you are already on a website)  .. nothing will work in this second
window until you go back to the dialog and close it (either by saving the file
or clicking cancel).

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Because this bug was about to expire ... I retested the behaviour with firefox
> 1.04 .. and the bug is still there .. I'll try an easier expliantion now.
> 

And in Firefox 1.5 beta 1, which is what the auto-resolve asked for ? That
version is base on code that is 1 years newer than yours.

Comment 5

[Guillermo Marraco]

similar bug: 283822. maybe the same bug.