Closed Bug 118866 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Menus should ungrab the mouse before executing any command

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect)

All
Linux
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 30167
Future

People

(Reporter: roland.mainz, Assigned: jag+mozilla)

Details

2002-01-07-08-trunk on Solaris and Linux: Mozilla keeps the mouse "grabbed" while executing commands like "File/Printing", "File/Print preview", "File/New navigator window" etc. etc. The user cannot do anything with the mouse while it's grab'ed by the menu - this is bad for the following cases: - Some menu items like "File/print preview" may take a long time - sometimes more than a minute and more (half hour if you hit the "wrong" page... =:-) ... and the user can do _nothing_ (except killing the Zilla from a remote machine) - If the Zilla crashes and a debugger is active the user cannot step into the debugger window - because the pointer is still grabbed (BAD) Solution: Ungrab the pointer once the user has clicked on a menu item - before we execute something which may block the Zilla for a long time...
-> future
Target Milestone: --- → Future
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30167 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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