Bug#599900: iceweasel: firefox shows multiple modal dialogs

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:03:55AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Excerpts from Mike Hommey's message of Tue Oct 12 11:03:07 +0200 2010:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:51:06AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > Package: iceweasel
> > > Version: 3.5.13-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > >
> > > Firefox displays mutiple dialods which are modal - prevent use of the
> > > application and other dialogs.
> > >
> > > This results in screen littered with cookie and authentication dialogs
> > > when multiple pages are loaded at once. There is no indication which of
> > > these dialogs is actually usable, and as all the dialogs are modal
> > > displaying later dialog steals focus from earlier dialog and prevents
> > > using it even if it is refocused.
> > >
> > > Cookie and authentication dialogs are often displayed mutiple times for
> > > the same domain/realm.
> > >
> > > Any application should display at most one modal dialog and at most one
> > > dialog with the same query for the same data.
> > 
> > I think this is being addressed in the 4.0 betas you can find on
> > http://mozilla.debian.net/packages/
> > 
> 
> It would be much more useful if you included the information that would
> allow using this repository with apt.
> 
> As the sources.list line format is undocumented it is rather hard to
> find out how to specify a line which causes apt to access a particular
> repository (and the sources.list line also depends on the contents of
> the Packages file).
> 
> Also the key for checking the packages file is missing, even in the blog
> entry which details the sources.list line.

You can check the instructions on http://mozilla.debian.net/, or get
Iceweasel 5.0 from unstable.

Mike