302432 - Firefox hangs if active tab is closed before "Save Page As" is completed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Baga]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Happens to me periodically. Seems to happen more often if i am saving to UNC
path on slow server, or when i have many tabs open, or site is slow.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open many tabs
2. Issue "Save Page As" - through menu or Ctrl+S
3. Immediately try to close active tab you are saving - Ctrl+F4 or click cross -
no difference

Actual Results:  
1 out of 5-20 times (depending on network, server speed, god knows what) Firefox
hangs. File "Blah.php.htm" is not created. Directory "Blah.php_files" is
created, but is empty. Waited for ~10 min - no recovery, had to kill process.

Expected Results:  
Er... this should work, right? 
Personal opinion - "Save As" - page or file - should happen in different thread,
not blocking main thread, so you can continue to browse.

Comment 1

[Baga]

This was not 100% repro, so when i tried to reproduce it lately, with Firefox 1.5.0.7, it was not happening. Most likely fixed.