304670 - Attempting to access Options causes browser freeze

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Ed Hume]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050814 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050814 Firefox/1.0+

In the Extensions window with ChatZilla selected, pressing the Options button or
right-clicking the Chatzilla listing and selecting Options causes Firefox to freeze.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the Extensions window.
2. Select Chatzilla 
3. Press the Options button

Actual Results:  
Browser freezes.

Expected Results:  
Options window should open.

The identical problem affects All-In-One Gestures 0.16.

I have 37 other extensions. With the exception of CZ and AiO, all of the
extensions with options did OK when Options was pressed.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050814
Firefox/1.0+ _*After*_ I opened the options dialog from within ChatZilla. Before
that, it hung my extensions window as well, but not the browser (which remained
functional).

This is very odd, perhaps James Ross would know more :-)

Comment 2

[James Ross]

This is not a ChatZilla bug.

I'd like to know when it started hanging, as I wouldn't be surprised if the
splitwindow stuff did it.

Anyhow, what ChatZilla sets for its options window is this:

javascript:opener.openDialog('chrome://chatzilla/content/config.xul','','chrome,modal,resizable');window.close();

This trick actually came from another extension, that also needed a resisable
options window (FF EM sucks). All-in-One Gestures also uses this trick, though
with flags 'chrome,all,dependent'.

Comment 3

[James Ross]

There is no hang in build 2005081106, the last one before all the splitwindow
crap landed.

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Hangs every time in 2005081208.

Weirdly, the succesful runs were happening when stepping through using venkman.
When venkman was not used, the options window continued hanging my extension
window. The reason venkman influences this is not entirely clear, but probably a
matter of timing (debugging is slower than running, of course).

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Works in 2005-08-11 18:56. Thanks to Peter van der Woude!

Comment 6

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Blocking splitwindow bug, which is the most likely cause for this.

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

So is this fixed or what?

Comment 8

[James Ross]

No, it's not fixed [2005081906]. Could you explain why it would be?

I wonder what component this belongs too... does Core: DOM sound ok?

Comment 9

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I'm fairly sure this has been fixed by now. It WFM on 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060104 Firefox/1.6a1

Resolving as WFM. Please reopen if the problem re-occurs on later trunk builds.