870060 - [meta] Make PromptService usages asynchronous

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[(inactive) Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons]]

Using the PromptService requires spinning our own event loop and is prone to causing ANRs (bug 860879). Many instances where PromptService is used can be made asynchronous.

Comment 1

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Attachment: Patch

Trying to bring some new people's into this code. This ports the promptService to use Prompt.jsm (i.e. async). Because HTML prompts are NOT async, we have to do a trick to spin the thread they are running on. This uses the same trick that the desktop tab-modal prompts use:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/prompts/src/nsPrompter.js#419

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I realize now this is a metabug. Let me move that patch to something better....

Comment 3

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