620195 - Dismiss tab-modal prompts when clicking anywhere outside the prompts

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: General, defect)

Description

[ithinc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101218 Firefox/4.0b9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101218 Firefox/4.0b9pre

Please dismiss tab-modal prompts when clicking anywhere outside the prompts, at least for the non-input informational prompts.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

I can see this causing a lot of missed information due to an intentional click on a page element happening just after the prompt appears but before you can stop yourself clicking in time to read the text of it.

Comment 2

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

I would not like this one bit, for the reasons Mardeg gives.

Comment 3

[Xavier Robin]

It might also be a problem later, if the user accidentally clicks somewhere while pondering the alert(). 

I'm not sure alerts should be that easy to dismiss. Neither Chromium nor Opera do it anyway.

Comment 4

[ithinc]

3 or 7 seconds to wait? Just don't like to aim at the OK button.

Comment 5

[Mardeg]

An arbitrary delay with no visible sign of the change in responsiveness to clicks is I think inviting an accessibility nightmare.

Comment 6

[ithinc]

(In reply to comment #5)
> An arbitrary delay with no visible sign of the change in responsiveness to
> clicks is I think inviting an accessibility nightmare.

OK button is clickable at anytime. What's the nightmare?

Comment 7

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I also don't think the prompts should work this way. We have click-outside-to-dismiss notifications now (eg, for geolocation), but that's only because they're designed so there's a way to reopen the dialog. That isn't possible for these dialogs.

Comment 8

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Actually, upon further reflection, I think we should at give some more thought to this (after Firefox 4), even if the decision is still to not do this.

Comment 9

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

We have heard complaints about the click-to-dismiss doorhangers and even those have a way to reopen. Let's close this as wontfix as it is too easy to accidentally dismiss and there isn't a way to retrigger these.