379707 - window hopping during long downloads

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Tom Schneider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1

When I am downloading a large file a Saving window appears showing
the progress.  Often when I move other SeaMonkey windows around during
the download, they 'hop' to the location of the saving window.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to the url given
2. launch the download
3. let the download proceed while you move windows around
Actual Results:  
While the download is going, but NOT when it is paused, the upper right
corner of windows that I move around suddenly 'hop' to match the upper
right corner of the download dialog window.  If I try to move the window
where I want it, it will hop back.  If I move the window a small distance,
it MIGHT not hop back.  So I can get it where I want sometimes by a series
of small moves.

Expected Results:  
Of course the windows should be completely independent!
I should be able to place windows where I want and they should not
hop across the screen just because I'm downloading.

It looks like there are some variables that are not set correctly.
For example, the saving window perhaps uses a global variable that is
the current position of the currently specified window.  So if I go
to another window, the position gets overridden.  If this is the case,
then the saving windows (note the plural!!) should EACH have their
own independent position variables.  That is, someone mixed up variables
that should be local to each window and apparently used them in a more
global way.

Comment 1

[Tom Schneider]

Oh, on the URL page, the one I was downloading is:
Part 1-Audio MP3
Note: This posting IN NO WAY supports the Intelligent Design concept,
which is scientifically wrong.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 3

[Tom Schneider]

Yes, I'm using SeaMonkey v1.1.9 and reproduced it just now.  I'm on Mac OS X 10.5
fully upgraded.  The web site I gave before was not responding so I went to CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/

where this happens frequently.  I opened one of the videos,
"Grannies kiss Obama, dance for Clinton" by 'Open Link in Wew Window".
The new window opened and began to load the video.  I then tried to move
the window I'd launched the video window from and the launcher window
snapped to the video window persistently.

I still think that it's a matter of some variable for the location of the window
not being defined carefully for each window.

Thanks for looking a this!

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Download manager has recently been refurbished. Sm 1.1.x is now discontinued.

Can you reproduce with 2.0.4 or later? If yes, please speak up, with useragent string, as seen after "Build identifier" at the bottom of the page which comes up when typing about: (followed by Enter) in the URL bar. If you can't reproduce, or remain silent, this bug will be closed WORKSFORME

Comment 5

[Tom Schneider]

(In reply to comment #4)
I haven't seen this bug for a long time and 2.0.4 works just fine.
You can close it as Resolved if I'm unable to.  Thanks!