286451 - Gray screen on getting new POP mail

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthew Imakyure]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050316 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.0+ (20050316)

On retrieving new email from a POP mail server the screen goes gray, blocking
other windows.  Thunderbird process must be killed to fix.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Retrieve new mail from a POP account (press "Get Mail" button)
2.  Wait for new mail to load
3.

Actual Results:  
Screen goes gray blocking other windows

Expected Results:  
Shown new mail

Comment 1

[Glen Gibb]

Actually if you click on the gray area and then press Alt-F4 the gray screen
will be closed but Thunderbird will still be running.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

i fixed this, this morning. 

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

*** Bug 286457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Glen Gibb]

I'm still seeing this problem in the 20050317 nightly build. (Running on WinXP)

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

re-opening per comments that folks still see this

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: more complete fix

package global alerts chrome into the release builds

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

*** Bug 286607 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Raanan Barzel]

Bug still present with Tinderbox ThunderbirdSetup.exe 17-Mar-2005 17:17  5.7M 

Comment 9

[Jean-Marc]

Bug vanished with 20050318 trunk build. I can use recent nightlies anew. Thanks
M. MacGregor.