603645 - Composing an email, clicking on Attach button, gives script error.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 482811

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Emilio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
Build Identifier: 3.1.3

I clicked on compose, after writing the email I needed to attach something, I clicked on attach, but I couldnt find the file, so I left the attach file window open, and went to look for the file in a different computer to bring it to the computer i was using, when I found it and came back to the computer, the attachment window had a message that said: Warning, Unresponsive Script. The details were: Script:chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/addressingWidgetOverlay.js:591.
I got the option to click Stop script and Continue, but none of the buttons worked because the attachment window was still open since i left it open until I found the file...so I had to force quit the app...and lost all the information I had written on the body of the email, the subject, everything..
How wonderful....

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click Compose mail, or Write an email.
2.Click Attach.
3.Leave the attach a file window open for more than 2-3 minutes.
Actual Results:  
I dont want to reproduce it, its retarded.

Expected Results:  
Umm not force me to force quit?

I was using all default settings, no themes, nothing. I even compose in plain text..

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I can't reproduce.

STR :
1) New mail
2) Filled in email recipient, subject and body.
3) clicked on attach icon , saw the dialog and moved away from tb.
4) came back later and clicked on cancel.

Got :
Script: chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/MsgComposeCommands.js:2826 too long error.

But didn't have the need to kill Thunderbird.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101013 Thunderbird/3.1.5

Cna you detail a bit more what you did to trigger your error ?

Comment 2

[Emilio]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I can't reproduce.
> 
> STR :
> 1) New mail
> 2) Filled in email recipient, subject and body.
> 3) clicked on attach icon , saw the dialog and moved away from tb.
> 4) came back later and clicked on cancel.
> 
> Got :
> Script: chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/MsgComposeCommands.js:2826
> too long error.
> 
> But didn't have the need to kill Thunderbird.
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11)
> Gecko/20101013 Thunderbird/3.1.5
> 
> Cna you detail a bit more what you did to trigger your error ?

Well, as you can see the error script you have, its different than mine. your error relates to MsgComposeCommands.js , my javascript error deals with the addressingWidgetOverlay.js, so I would assume you were able to click cancel because of the difference in script error, but the STR were the same, weird, I know, I cant explain..

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

your STRs are incomplete. you probably have View -> contact sidebar enabled right ?

Comment 4

[Emilio]

(In reply to comment #3)
> your STRs are incomplete. you probably have View -> contact sidebar enabled
> right ?

how can my STR be incomplete? thats exactly what I do, and I do not have contact sidebar enabled because that is not an option under my View menu, btw, im using Thunderbird for OSX, 10.6.5 TBIRD version 3.1.7 so maybe your 10.5 version of OSX has difference Java version... I know this is an issue with snow leopard and leopard, the java versions... also java in 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode can contribute to error...

Comment 5

[Colin S]

I am able to reproduce the chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/addressingWidgetOverlay.js:591 script not responding error on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7. Repro steps are as described in the OP; compose a new message, open attachment window, wait a couple minutes.

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> your STRs are incomplete. you probably have View -> contact sidebar enabled
> right ?

View -> Toolbars -> Contact sidebar is what I meant when the compose window is in the foreground.

Without that there is no way for me to trigger the exception.

Can you try to start TB in safe-mode as described at http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode and let me know if that helps ?

Comment 7

[Emilio]

Ok, well while in the compose window, no i dont have the contact sidebar enabled at all.

Well i dont want to start in safe mode because that problem only happens when i leave it open for a certain long time so i will not be doing that anymore therefore i dont need to further diagnose the problem which im sure am not the only one getting as someone else said before.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

It shouldn't matter whether contact sidebar is up or not. AFAICS this is basically bug 482811