598500 - Pop-up Editing Blocks Program Functions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 449299

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[KitchM]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100724 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Lightning/1.0b2 Lanikai/3.1.2

Whenever users open a draft message to edit it, or they open a new message, or they try to work on their add-ons manager window, etc., the pop-up windows (which should have been tabs) block all the program functions and displays.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select to open almost anything
2.Note how a window opens rather than a tab
3.Note how main program window processes and functions can't be seen
Actual Results:  
Loss of functionality

Expected Results:  
A program should only have one window.  Any need for another space should always be placed in a tab.

This problem has been ongoing for many months and needs to be fixed.  It continues to cause a huge loss in productivity.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

these are covered in various bugs, one of which is bug 449299