679795 - Modal dialogs during startup are always raised

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

Attachment: screenshot for clarity

This might have something to do with how we interpret "modal" on OSX (I'm on Lion for what it's worth), but whatever it is, the Select Add-ons dialog stays raised even when switching to a different application.

The attached screenshot shows the window still raised even though I've switched to LimeChat.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This is a new feature in Firefox 8.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Perhaps because they are modal with no parent or perhaps because we run them before running the cocoa event loop or something but this seems to affect both the dialogs we can show at startup. Both are opened with the arguments "chrome,centerscreen,dialog,titlebar,modal"

Comment 3

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

Ok, seems to be OSX specific and how we do modal windows there. On Linux things are fine (though it shows up as "Untitled window" in the taskbar).

This isn't restricted to dialogs shown during startup either (though the no parent window might be relevant). The clear recent history window remains raised as well.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This doesn't seem to be a regression from bug 596343, nor is it new so I don't think we need to track this for 8

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

In fact based on clear private data doing it too I'm going to claim this isn't an add-ons manager bug, likely widget

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Could be related to the problem we have with that clear recent history dialog which is handled on bug 464930.