292393 - Gray screen when downloading updates and getting weather report

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Brian Mains]

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

There seems to be a strange, strange error, when Firefox displayed a window with
a weather update (ForecastFox extension) and display that updates have been
downloaded.  I had thunderbird and firefox (2) open, while connected and
uninstalling software, and when it displayed the notifications (both at the same
time), I got a big gray screen that I couldn't do nothing (similar to blue
screen of death, but with no messages, nothing.  I had to end task all mozilla
products, but it didn't remove the issue until I finally, lastly, end tasked
thunderbird.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. uninstall software and have thunderbird/mozilla open
2. get 2 notifications at the same time
3. have gray screen

Actual Results:  
Gray screen; Alt + tab to switch to a task that then switched to a regular
window, where I could see the software uninstall, and then subsequently end task
mozilla products.

Expected Results:  
Not done that.

Notifications

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Is this still a valid bug? Try to confirm it with a nightly build
http://www.mozilla.org/developer and report back whether this issue is still
pertinent.

Otherwise, this bug will be marked INVALID for for inactivity in excess of 60
days (pre-1.0.4). I am self-assigning to track this bug and will reassign to
original owner if this bug is still valid.

Comment 2

[Jenn Scott]

William, I can't confirm this in a nightly build, but I have had it happen to me
in Firefox 1.0.6 with GMail Notifier 0.4.3 and ForecastFox 0.8 installed,
running in WinXP SP 2 (with all patches).  I just opened Firefox 1.0.6 today
(7/23), and received a notification from GMail Notifier and ForecastFox at the
same time.  When that happened, the entire screen went light gray except for the
notifications.  I do have both extensions installed on my status bar.  Normally,
the notifications will therefore pop up at the bottom of my screen.  However,
when this happened, the GMail Notifier notification appeared at the top left of
the screen.  I did have other programs running at the time, but if I used
Alt+Tab to switch to them, the gray screen remained instead of displaying the
other program as expected.  I was able to bring up my taskbar using the taskbar
button on my keyboard, and was able to get to Task Manager that way.  Task
Manager did appear.  Once I end processed firefox.exe, the gray screen went
away.  When I reopened Firefox 1.0.6, my GMail Notifier didn't connect, so I
only received one notification from ForecastFox.  Firefox displayed normally
that time.  I have had this happen in previous versions of Firefox as well, but
I didn't connect the dots as to what exactly was happening until I searched
Bugzilla today.

UserAgent (sorry, I also use Firesomething): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 WebMonkey/1.0.6 (All your Firefox/1.0.6
are belong to Firesomething)

Comment 3

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

There have been updates to all listed extensions and to Firefox since the last comment on this bug. Closing WFM. Feel free to reopen if you encounter this again in the future.