1186559 - Blank addon panel when multiple windows open

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect)

Description

[Masooma]

Attachment: ff-addon.xpi

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.134 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

-Create a simple addon with an actionButton using addon-sdk. 
(Note: I have created one simple addon named 'ff-addon.xpi' and attached it to this bug)
-Install the addon on latest Firefox. (You may just drag and drop the attached xpi to the firefox browser and install it)
-Open two Firefox windows and place them side by side so that the actionButton present on the toolbar is visible on both the windows.
-Click on the actionButton on one of the open windows. The panel is displayed as expected.
-While the panel on this window is open, without clicking anywhere else, directly click on the actionButton of the second window.




Actual results:

Panel on the second window opens and closes back abruptly. When you try to open the panel again on the second window, it appears blank. The panel always appears blank on either of the windows once it goes into this state. You have to restart the browser to get rid of this issue.


Expected results:

The panel on the second window should open properly.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: Regressed since Firefox33

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Pushlog:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=878193cac6b7&tochange=c2c661f15fcd

REGRESSED BY: Bug 610545


Bug 610545 should be backed out from 38ESR, because the animation is not important.

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

FYI, 
31.0 and 32 was fixed by the followings
dab08e1fc630	Neil Deakin — Bug 1034067 - Disable arrowpanel animation in aurora/beta. a=sledru

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

Comment 5

[Kate Glazko]

Adding onto the NI, are there any steps to pursue a fix for any of the versions of FF? Not good that you have to restart the browser to exit this problem state.

Comment 6

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Tracked for 41 and 42.

Comment 7

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Once we have a fix, we can discuss the feasibility of getting it into FF40 or ESR38 release. For now, I don't think this issue is release blocking for either of those two.

Comment 8

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

This is an edge case that has been around for 6 releases already. While this is a valid bug, I don't think this is critical enough to track and is definitely not critical enough to backport to ESR. Assuming this is fixed before the next major ESR45 release, the fix can be picked up then.

Comment 9

[Neil Deakin]

I don't see this on Windows or Mac. Is this still an issue?