574797 - in a showModalDialog window, toolbars can be made visible & new tabs can be created

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

Create a window, which behaves mostly like a modal dialog, with window.showModalDialog.

The toolbars can be made visible by, say, clicking on the top-right pill button on OS X.
New tabs can also be created in this new window.

This should be fixed during the process of making showModalDialog tab-modal. (bug 564337)

Comment 1

[Dave Webber]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but what is the intended user benefit of being denied access to part of their user interface (and any means to restore said access)? I for one prefer that I can always access toolbars and preferences, and would prefer also to always have access to all relevant menus. If showModalDialog is made tab-modal, then I would want to be able to create new tabs while such a dialogue is being shown. In general, I believe it is best to avoid removing user control over any feature except to benefit the user. But, as I said, perhaps I'm missing something.

Comment 2

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

I don't think this is something we care to fix anymore. If anything, we'd probably just deprecate the API via bug 627151.