623880 - document.write()/document.open () activate spinner and stop button which never stop

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 81980

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Stefan]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a1b954e9fa32

Follow up and related to Bug 619644, Bug Bug 621308.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open testcase https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=501957
2. press "alert" button
3. press press esc or press cancel or press OK
Actual Results:  
keeps spinning.

Expected Results:  
no spinning

Comment 1

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

This might be a dupe of one of the other tab-modal prompt issues, but lets keep it separate for investigation.

Comment 2

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Is this a more recent regression or is this another one of those problems that have been around since the beginning?

Comment 3

[gadjo]

I can see it also on 3.6, so it's not a tab modal prompt related issue

Comment 4

[Stefan]

It's in 3.5.19, 3.0.19 and 2.0.0.19

Comment 5

[Stefan]

The problem is not the dialog but the invocation of document.write()/.open().

Comment 6

[Stefan]

Attachment: testcase: asynchronous call to document.open()

Comment 7

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

You just need to call document.close to indicate that you're finished and the spinner will stop don't you?