Closed Bug 296027 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Dragging messages when window pops up -> user has no more control

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 100180

People

(Reporter: u102922, Assigned: mscott)

Details

(Keywords: hang)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If you drag a message when a popup window is opened at the same time (eg.
connection failed to a server), this causes the lost of control over the
application. It is not possible to close the popup window or the application.
After that the only thing you can do is to kill Thunderbird with the Task Manager.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag a message to another folder.
2. At the same time a popup window is shown. (eg. a warning concerning the
connection to a server)

Actual Results:  
Your're blocked and can't do anything. Clicking on the OK button won't close the
popup window

Expected Results:  
To have the ability to close the popup window and continue dragging the message.



But I personnally think it would be better not to show warning messages like
this whith a popup window. In Outlook, this is better done with a status window
that you can close or open at any time. A message in the status bar could also
show the status of the connections.
Version: unspecified → 1.0
see bug 100180

workaround: Hitting the Esc key helps.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100180 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
V.Duplicate
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Keywords: hang
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