273512 - Address book's "New card" dialog is modal

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264851

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Torben Putkonen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

The dialog used for creating new cards into the addressbook is modal.

If an e-mail contains a v-card and a user clicks the v-card icon in the message
window, then the created modal dialog prevents copying and pasting text from the
e-mail into the address card's fields.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive an e-mail with a v-card
2. Open the e-mail
3. Click the v-card icon in the bottom of the e-mail
4. Copy text from the e-mail to the address card

Actual Results:  
Text can not be copied from an e-mail to address card.

Expected Results:  
It should be possible to copy text from an e-mail into an address card.

Comment 1

[Denis Haskin]

Similarly, if the new card dialog was not modal, one could have 2 (or more) open
at once, which would make it much more convenient when cutting & pasting
information between them (I find I frequently have to consolidate cards).

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264851 ***