283822 - Save As stalls other Firefox threads till closed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257121

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Csaba Gabor]

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

Have Firefox open.
Select File / Save Page As

Now open ANOTHER instance of Firefox (I click on Firefox in my quicklaunch menu)
type in google.com and hit return
Notice that nothing is happening - google.com has not loaded

Now go to the previous instance of Firefox and press Cancel (or Save).
By the time you get back to the other Firefix, google.com has loaded

I'm not expecting that Actions in one instance of Firefox are going to stall out
my other Firefox instances.

Csaba Gabor from Vienna

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Csaba Gabor]

The behvaiour originally reported is still happening.

I now have google set as my startup page.  So when I go to the quicklaunch menu
to start FF, I don't see anything.  However, if I do an alt+tab, I'll see that
there is one more instance of FF.  If I select the first instance (say by doing
alt+tab, keeping the alt key pressed down, and then  alt+shift+tab then
releasing all) I will still see that instance when I press alt+tab again.  If,
however, I select another instance of FF, that first one disappears from the
alt+tab sequence.

But, as before, if I press cancel within the Save As dialog, the newly started
FF pops right up.  This was tested on Win XP Pro with Deer Park Alpha 2
downloaded this evening (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051007 Firefox/1.6a1).

Csaba Gabor from Vienna

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

There's actaully only 1 Firefox process - all the windows belong to that one.

Comment 4

[Guillermo Marraco]

all firefox windows freeze meanwhile saving web pages for offline browsing.

I have ranted and whinning for this since firefox 1...
...too bad firefox 2 has not fixed it.

I have found this annoying bug in any machine I have used. (all on Win XP).

This block use of firefox, then is a blocker level bug, not a normal.

I hate using Iexplore, but this leave no choice, since Internet time is not cheap nor free.

Internet explorer allows the user for simultaneously saving pages (many in paralell), meanwhile the users continue to navigating.

Comment 5

[Guillermo Marraco]

maybe is the same bug number 303268, because I download web pages in public places to my USB pendrive.

Comment 6

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

What is preventing the user from simply navigating to the multiple pages and then saving each one individually, one at a time? Why are multiple Save As windows needed simultaneously?

Comment 7

[Guillermo Marraco]

The problem is that each time that a page is saved to disk (I save to USB pen drives) all firefox windows hang until the page is saved.

I open in cibercafes -public places- many firefox windows or tabs, and save all pages to pendrives. After, I read the pages on my home.

is common that the saving takes 30 seconds to one minute, and meanwhile I can`t acces firefox windows.

This forces me to use Internet Explorer instead of firefox.

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"What is preventing the user from simply navigating to the multiple pages and
then saving each one individually, one at a time? Why are multiple Save As
windows needed simultaneously?"

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dupe