300377 - alert box loop breaks baycouples.com

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61098

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Garrett Smith]

When filling out the form, when you click the "email" field, an alert box pops
up. click on the alert box's OK button, and the same alert pops up again.

the only way to get out of the alert box loop is to close the window. This will
sometimes result in application crash.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

WFM in WinXP. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3)
Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005071108

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

WFM too in current windows trunk build. Maybe only a Mac issue?
Reporter, you have tested with a nightly trunk build?
http://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 3

[Garrett Smith]

I suspect so. Adding pp kwd.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: testcase

this loops forever with linux seamonkey trunk 2005071102

Comment 5

[Garrett Smith]

I suspect focus is transferred to the alert, and then when the alert is closed,
focus is transferred back to the input box, causing the onfocus handler to be
invoked (causing the focus to be transferred to the alert, then back to the
input, ad infinitum).

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I believe we have existing bugs about the fact that on linux refocusing a window
fires the onfocus handler of whatever element in the window has focus.

Comment 7

[Garrett Smith]

Boris, if you find that bug, then please report that finding here so we can
resolve this to 1 bug (mark this dup) and also add that that (other) bug affects
mac, too.

Comment 8

[Andrew Schultz]

I thought this was bug 163971 initially, but I'm not seeing the same behavior
there anymore (link instead of an input)

Comment 9

[Adam Guthrie]

Might be a dupe of bug 61098. I think Boris was talking about bug 302787 -> bug
253239.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

duping to bug 61098
You can stop the loop now with the second alert