281077 - Pending modal window in Mail causes Browser to stall

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 74331

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Luiz-Otavio Zorzella]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

I often connect to a mail server with IMAP over SSL, where the certificate is
bogus. Before the connection is completed, I receive a modal window to "Ok" that
bogus certificate (so far so good).

The problem, now, is if I switch back to the Browser component, I can still
scroll though the already-loaded pages, switch tabs, etc, but if I try to open a
link, the "loading" animation will keep spinning, and the link is never loaded
(until I switch back to Mail and "Ok" the modal window).

It might seem a very minor issue, but, oftentimes, because of network lags, I
switch from Mail to Browser before the modal window is even shown, and do not
realize I have a pending window to "Ok", and, at trying to load links, I just
assume my network link is down (or slow). Of course, I suspect that other modal
windows in the Mail application will also cause the same problem, though I can't
 think of how to test anything else.

The expected behaviour should be, IMHO, that the browser is not impacted at all
when there is a pending modal against Mail. Or, converselly (less ideal, I
think), that modal windows will open on top of (and totally block) *both* Mail
and Browser.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74331 ***