363481 - Subscribe dialog box hangs with "Please wait..." when used in Offline mode.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308650

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Carter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird version 1.5.0.8 (20061025)

When in Offline mode, opening the "Subscribe" dialog box (File->Subscribe...) produces a message "Please wait..." and cycling progress bar.  I let it wait for hours, but nothing happens.  If I Cancel, go online (File->Offline->uncheck Work Offline), then re-open the Subscribe dialog box, it shows me folders I can subscribe to as expected.

If "Subscribe" doesn't work when in offline mode, it should probably be grayed-out in the File menu when in offline mode.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go offline (File -> Offline -> Work offline)
2. Open "subscribe" dialog (File -> Subscribe...)
3. Note the "Please wait..." message.
Actual Results:  
Obediently you wait, but nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
The "subscribe" dialog should probably be disabled while offline.
Alternatively, the "subscribe" dialog could simply show nothing but not say "Please wait...".

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is actually the very old bug 92852, which is entered as a suite bug but probably would be fixed, if ever, in core code.