Closed Bug 520020 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

JavaScript alert dialog should not block access to the entire browser UI

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59314

People

(Reporter: erik, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3

Especially with tabbed browsing, it does not make sense to block the entire UI. The dialog should be a more lightweight construct which only blocks the tab which caused the alert to display.

Reproducible: Always
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Or of bug 123908…
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