408469 - Lashing dialogs, opened by some tab tab to the tab's rectangle. Also all dialogs must be modal only for this tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59314

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Dmitriy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

When some tab opens a modal dialog, all browser is blocked, but this is not correct: dialog must be modal ONLY for it's tab. I offer to do it and, on changing from tab with opened modal dialog to another do one of next things:

1. Hide the dialog. They will be showed only when user change tab back.
2. Do not hide, but always draw dialog only inside tab's rectangle, shaped by it's border. So no code for hiding them will be writed. Tab mechanism will hide it automatically when user changed the tab.

Also any modal dialogs must not block interface of the browser outside the tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open tab with the modal dialog.
2. Try to change to another tab or do something with the browser.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Dupe of bug 59314? Although there are so many open modal bugs it's hard to say.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I say yes