Fixed #1153.

app/views/kinds/CocoView.coffee

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CocoClass = require 'lib/CocoClass'
 loadingScreenTemplate = require 'templates/loading'
 loadingErrorTemplate = require 'templates/loading_error'
 
+lastToggleModalCall = 0
 visibleModal = null
 waitingModal = null
 classCount = 0
@@ -15,9 +16,6 @@ module.exports = class CocoView extends Backbone.View
   template: -> ''
 
   events:
-    'click a': 'toggleModal'
-    'click button': 'toggleModal'
-    'click li': 'toggleModal'
     'click .retry-loading-resource': 'onRetryResource'
     'click .retry-loading-request': 'onRetryRequest'
 
@@ -46,7 +44,6 @@ module.exports = class CocoView extends Backbone.View
     @subviews = {}
     @listenToShortcuts()
     @updateProgressBar = _.debounce @updateProgressBar, 100
-    @toggleModal = _.debounce @toggleModal, 100
     # Backbone.Mediator handles subscription setup/teardown automatically
 
     @listenTo(@supermodel, 'loaded-all', @onLoaded)
@@ -150,7 +147,15 @@ module.exports = class CocoView extends Backbone.View
 
   # Modals
   
+  @lastToggleModalCall = 0
+
   toggleModal: (e) ->
+    if new Date().getTime() - CocoView.lastToggleModalCall < 5
+      # Defensive move. This function has had a history of messing things up.
+      console.error 'toggleModal is getting called too often!'
+      return
+    CocoView.lastToggleModalCall = new Date().getTime()
+      
     if $(e.currentTarget).prop('target') is '_blank'
       return true
     # special handler for opening modals that are dynamically loaded, rather than static in the page. It works (or should work) like Bootstrap's modals, except use coco-modal for the data-toggle value.

app/views/kinds/ModalView.coffee

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ module.exports = class ModalView extends CocoView
   modalWidthPercent: null
   plain: false
   
+  events:
+    'click a': 'toggleModal'
+    'click button': 'toggleModal'
+    'click li': 'toggleModal'
+
   shortcuts:
     'esc': 'hide'
 

app/views/kinds/RootView.coffee

@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ module.exports = class RootView extends CocoView
     'change .language-dropdown': 'onLanguageChanged'
     'click .toggle-fullscreen': 'toggleFullscreen'
     'click .auth-button': 'onClickAuthbutton'
+    'click a': 'toggleModal'
+    'click button': 'toggleModal'
+    'click li': 'toggleModal'
 
   subscriptions:
     'achievements:new': 'handleNewAchievements'

test/app/views/modal/AuthModalView.spec.coffee

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+AuthModalView = require 'views/modal/auth_modal'
+RecoverModalView = require 'views/modal/recover_modal'
+
+describe 'AuthModalView', ->
+  it 'opens the recover modal when you click the recover link', ->
+    m = new AuthModalView()
+    m.render()
+    spyOn(m, 'openModalView')
+    m.$el.find('#link-to-recover').click()
+    expect(m.openModalView.calls.count()).toEqual(1)
+    args = m.openModalView.calls.argsFor(0)
+    expect(args[0] instanceof RecoverModalView).toBeTruthy()