638066 - Doorhanger notifications shouldn't prevent interaction with the browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 596723

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Will Pittenger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

When you install a new addon, a message appears once the addon is installed.  I'm not talking about the confirmation dialog.  The message I am referring to appears after the addon is completely installed.  Either you are told to restart or the addon is ready.

The problem is that you can't interact with the browser window until you dismiss that message.  You can do that by clicking the browser window.  But you shouldn't have to do that.  Sometimes I was attempting to scroll the current window.  Other times, I wanted to close the tab that installed the addon.  The current code requires an extra click.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install an addon.
2. Confirm you want to install it.
3. You are told to restart or the addon is ready.
4. Attempt to interact with the browser window without dismissing the message.
Actual Results:  
The message forces you to dismiss it with a special click.

Expected Results:  
Users aren't expecting that dialog to require it to be dismissed with a special click.  Since the message box is modeless, they expect to be able to access the browser window immediately.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

That's for all doorhanger notifications and not only for those which are in use by the Add-ons Manager.