415705 - unable to check gmail if all warning dialogs are checked

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect)

Description

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020404 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Found while doing exploratory testing on Minefield. If you enable all the warning dialogs in the security preferences you won't be able to check your gmail.

Steps:
1. Go to the Security tab in the Preferences and click on the Settings button in the Warning Messages area.
2. Select all the warning dialog checkboxes
3. Go to www.gmail.com and enter you credentials
4. Click through all the Security Warning dialogs

Expected: Eventually I should see my gmail inbox

Actual: You keep getting warning dialogs and the page stays blank with a message saying "Loading..."

The error console has repeated error message like this:

"Error: %42
Source File: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ids=piz4kudka6qp
Line: 280"

Same in Vista. I tried checking Yahoo, but that worked after clicking through a couple of warning messages.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Seems likely to be a timing issue with Gmail rather than a bug in Gecko, although that error is rather strange.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Pretty sure this would be a core bug, please renominate for 1.9

Comment 3

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

I had no problems using Windows. Is it still happening for you? could it have been a transient site issue? Or maybe it's just Mac?

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

I take that back -- I signed into SSL Gmail as I always do, httpS://mail.google.com which stays SSL after the SSL login screen. When I tried with non-SSL GMail as indicated by the error in comment 0 I see Juan's problem on Windows.

FF2.0.0.12 is fine though, a couple of alerts and then you get your mail.

Comment 5

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

Yes, I can reproduce this behavior (comment 0) on Linux.

Funny. Could this have been caused by the thread manager changes?

Or the change might be simpler - maybe gmail's AJAX code wants to redirect while the warning dialog is up, and the redirect/reload action fails.

(Nelson, I'm cc'ing you FYI only, because in the past you have expressed your wish to keep all warnings enabled in your own profile.)

Comment 6

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

CC'ing Christian and Darin, module owner's of Network, and both working for the GMail company.

Comment 7

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

This is another bug where it would help, if we had a fix for bug 62178.

If we were able to warn about a loading BEFORE it happens, then the JS code would not yet be active, and our warnings would be unable to interrupt it.

Comment 8

[Kai Engert (:KaiE:)]

reassign bug owner.
mass-update-kaie-20120918

Comment 9

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler] (on leave)]

Sounds like the mixed content blocker fixed the root issue here.