84011 - open web location doesn't work if no browser window [Current Navigator Window]

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Kathleen :Brade]

if I have only a composer window (or no windows at all), and choose "Open Web 
Location" I can enter a URL and click open but nothing happens.  It is trying to 
open the url in the "current navigator window" but there isn't a browser window 
so nothing happens.

expectation: I think that the option of "current navigator window" should be 
disabled unless there is an existing navigator window.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

note: it actually *is* disabled but it's still the current option (checked in the 
popup)

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

This is really a dup of bug 84011.  The logic that will fix that will prevent a 
disabled item from being selected.  Because that's not fixed, we have to 
manually set the selected item to the first one.  So we could either wait for 
that one to get fixed, or, if this is really critical, we could manually write 
logic for this dialog.  I'd hate to do that, because then we really should be 
doing it everywhere else, and that's a fair amount of extra code that shouldn't 
be dialog-specific.

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

Blake--which is this a duplicate of?  This is bug 84011.  ;-)

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

interesting --i can repro this on mac and winnt [2001.06.04.xx comm trunk], but
oddly i cannot on linux [2001.06.04.08 comm trunk], where the "current navigator
window" list item is both greyed out and not selectable.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

Oops, sorry, I meant bug 62185.  Pushing this out for now.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

just to clarify (mostly a reminder to self): the New Navigator Window and New
Composer Windows options do work. [tested 2001.07.10.03-branch comm, mac.]

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 98620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

Blake, will that fix cause "Current Navigator Window" to actually appear
disabled as well? (It doesn't, now.)

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

I don't think I'd say this bug is a duplicate of bug 62185, but I would suggest that this 
particular problem does depend on that bug. Would you agree, Blake?

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 99307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Charles Manske]

*** Bug 102739 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Blake Ross]

mac -->pchen

Comment 13

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->moz1.0

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

trudelle to triage

Comment 15

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

moving open bugs pertaining to the Open Web Location dialog to [e-mail]
as qa contact.

to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set your search string to
"GottaGetThisHenOut!"

Comment 16

[Peter Trudelle]

->ben

Comment 17

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1+ per Nav triage team.  Should disable 'curren't default, and select 'New
nav window" as default for this case.

Comment 18

[aaron weber]

Command-N (Open New Window) doesn't work in that case either.

Comment 19

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

FWIW, I hear confusion from new users frequently on this one.

Comment 20

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 142191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 161750 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 161703 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 23

[Jesse Ruderman]

There are several problems here:

1. Your "open in:" selection in the "Open Web Location" dialog is remembered
between products.

2. Because of (1), Ctrl+Shift+L in Composer selects "existing navigator window"
rather than "new composer window" by default.  If you don't read everything in
the dialog, File -> Open Web Location in Composer will not do what you expect.

3. "Existing navigator window" can always be the default option even though it
is disabled when no browser windows are open.

4. If "Existing navigator window" is selected but there aren't any navigator
windows open, clicking the "Open" button should act as if you had selected "New
navigator window".  Fixing (3) might not fix this automatically, because you
could close navigator windows while the dialog is visible.

The root cause of all of these problems is:

5. The browser's "Open Web Location" dialog has a "new composer window" option,
and Composer's "Open Web Location" dialog has several browser-window options.

I suggest just fixing (5).  Or getting rid of the "Open Web Location" dialog in
the browser, like Phoenix did.

Comment 24

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 25

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Bug also occurs in SeaMonkey trunk on Linux.
Running "seamonkey -editor" with a fresh profile, the default value
is "Existing Navigator window" even though it's greyed out if you
look in the combobox dropdown menu.

Comment 26

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".

Comment 27

[Tia Fisher]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from provorintrap1971.