65854 - Open window does not Pop to front

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 60812

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Mike Lemley]

Steps:
1) Read mail with attachment that is SPREADSHEET
2) Click on attachment icon in the mail body and highlight Spreadsheet file to open
3) At first pop-up window, select "Open file"
4) Because this is a spreadsheet, it can not be opened with N6 and there is a
second pop-up window that asks whether to open XLS file by choosing an
application such as EXCEL.

ACTUAL RESULT
The second pop-up window does not pop to the top of the desktop, and therefore
it appears that nothing is happening, when actually, the pop-up window is
waiting for user input.

EXPECTED RESULT
The second pop-up window should pop to the front so that a user can select to
open the XLS file using EXCEL. (I had to notice the "Downloading" icon on the
taskbar and click it to pop the window to the top).

Build. N6 RTM Disc
Windows 98

Further consideration - Why doesn't the browser associate the XLS file type with
the Excel automatically as a preference which I am sure was defined under 4.7x?
 Is this also a merge from 4.7x to N6 issue?  The extra pop-up window adds a
step that seems extraneous in the case where an application can already be
associated with a file type.

Comment 1

[Fabian Guisset]

Helper apps are defined in the preferences panel. It does not automatically
migrate your windows settings. You have to define each mime type manually. I'm
pretty sure if you have excel listed as a helper app it will open automatically.
As to why it pops up in the back... It's a FE problem, not networking, so
reassigning to mail for triage.

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

Could you please test with the latest Mozilla build
(http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly and pick the latest directory which
contains a build for your platform). Netscape 6 has a lot of bugs that Mozilla
does not have, and this might well be fixed.
Now that I think of it, mail has nothing to do with helper apps.. so reassigning
to something hopefully better

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Looks like a -->Toolkit/Widgets problem

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

this is a dup of one of my bugs to fix for mozilla .9, i'm not sure why it got
re-assigned away from me.

Comment 5

[Fabian Guisset]

Was that bug 60812?

Comment 6

[Keyser Sose]

Possibly certainly looks like it but i will hold off marking it until mscott
comments it is.

Comment 7

[Keyser Sose]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 60812 ***

Comment 8

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.