788184 - Opening multiple modal dialogs blocks and causes console errors

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Ian Nartowicz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1
Build ID: 20120208060813

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a function in a javascript code module to open modal dialogs
2. Open two browser window.
3. Use the module function to open a modal dialog from each window.
4. Close the modal dialog in the first window.



Actual results:

Some operations in the first window are no longer responsive.  I believe these are functions that make calls to the javascript code module which appears to be (partially) hung.


Expected results:

Something that doesn't just lock out parts of the browser.  Try doing this with modal sub-dialogs from the original dialogs and things get really hairy, console errors, corrupted data, etc.

I realise that opening a modal dialog from a singleton is pretty dumb, but the fact that it is possible to keep opening multiple modal dialogs hides the fact that it isn't working properly.

Comment 1

[Ian Nartowicz]

My mistake.  This has nothing to do with javascript code modules and also occurs in plain overlay scripts.

Is this the well known and "acceptable" issue with modal dialogs spinning their event loops?

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Which modal dialog are you talking about?
Per spec showModalDialog does spin the event loop.
alert() etc shouldn't, but in Gecko they do end up doing that.

Comment 3

[Ian Nartowicz]

I spotted the problem first with my own custom dialogs, but have since produced the blocking with the bookmark properties dialog from my bookmarks toolbar.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven't been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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