291987 - freeze when closing a popup window containing an applet with a button

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[De Moor Yves]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

when you open a popup window containing an applet and a button : <input
type="button" value="Cancel" id="Cancel" name="Cancel" onClick="window.close();"
/> and you click on the button executing a "window.close()", the browser is no
more usable. The gui seems to respond but do noting and you have to close your
browser (and most of the time kill the instance already running).

This is a problem with the button, because if you use a link tag it works fine :
<a href="javascript:window.close();">Cancel</a>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a popupwindow containing an applet and a button with onClick="window.close()
2.click on the button, the window will close and the browser will stop responding
3.

Actual Results:  
the window will close and the browser will stop responding

Expected Results:  
Just close the window and continue working.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you please attach a testcase (using thge create new attachment link in this
bug) or provide a URL ?

Comment 2

[De Moor Yves]

Attachment: Set 1 : the main page

the main page, you should use this page to test the bug.
This page is a part of a set which should be downloaded compleatly.

Comment 3

[De Moor Yves]

Attachment: Set 1 : the popup window

The popup window, should only be openend unsing the button in the index.html
page
This page is a part of a set which should be downloaded compleatly.

Comment 4

[De Moor Yves]

Attachment: Set 1 : a sample applet from java.sun.com

The applet loaded in the popup window
This page is a part of a set which should be downloaded compleatly.

Comment 5

[De Moor Yves]

Added a set of file allowing to reproduce the bug.

1. Dowload all files from set 1 and place them in the same directory.
2. Launch the index.html page.
3. click on the button to open the popup window.
4. close the window using the button in the popup window.
5. your browser stop now responding, try to go to your home page, to load
another page, ...

PS : using jre 1.5.0_02-b09

Comment 6

[Eugene Kim]

Phew, lucky I just saved all tabs in a folder...

bug reproduced in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050428 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 7

[De Moor Yves]

Adding an on-line test-case so you don't need to download the files, just go to
http://home.tiscali.be/yvesdm/firefox/index.html

Hope this will help you to fix this annoying bug.

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de-DE; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050514
and Java Plug-in 1.5.0_01 for Netscape Navigator

Comment 9

[Patrick Hamel]

Hi,
Firefox 1.0.4:
1.0.4: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4

Mozilla Suite 1.7.3 and 1.7.6:
1.7.3: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
1.7.6: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

JRE: 1.5.0_02 and 1.4.2_08

All links become unresponsive, location bar does not expand up, navigation using
back/forward drop down lists (and buttons) utimately have no effect.

The mouse switches to the "hour glass" when selecting (back/forward list) or
typing a new url in the location bar, but nothing else occurs after waiting a
few minutes.

Closing the firefox (and Mozilla suite 1.7.8 too) have the process (firefox.exe
or mozilla.exe) linger in the task manager.

Closing the popup window using the link works fine as far as I tried.

===========
I first encountered this issue when dealing with the same applet being present
in the parent and in the popup window.

Thanks for the new point of view on this problem (button vs links). 

I got a "debug" applet that traces the lifecycle events I can attach to this
case if that would help.

Your insights are appreciated.

PatH

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 11

[De Moor Yves]

The bug can always be reproduced on

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919
Firefox/1.0.7

I have tried on other computers with the same config Win-xp pro and firefox
1.0.7 and java 1.5.0_04-b05

To reproduce it :
You can download the test case for offline test, 
or try it online at http://home.tiscali.be/yvesdm/firefox/index.html

Also note in the history that other person where able to reproduce it !!

Please try to investigate to fix this bug.
If you need more information, just contact me.

Yvesdm

Comment 12

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908
Firefox/1.4

Comment 13

[mike]

ditto comment #12.  can reproduce at:
http://games.yahoo.com/games/login2?page=ch&cat=intermediate

you need a yahoo account, but afterwards, click into a room and you'll get a
pop-up java applet window.  when closing, browser will stop responding as
described above, requiring an explicit kill to stop the process.

Comment 14

[Martin]

Confirmed using Firefox 1.0.6 using http://home.tiscali.be/yvesdm/firefox/index.html

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

Using JRE version 1.5.0_04 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

Appears to be fixed in 1.5RC3.

Comment 15

[De Moor Yves]

Seems to be fixed in version 1.5

Comment 16

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no patch = not fixed

Comment 17

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm