138562 - Mail, News and Preference menus display but are un-clickable

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[John Turner]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    Gecko/20020417

Mail, News, Preference, address book, and probably other windows will come up
fine, but most items on these pages are then NOT selectable by clicking on them.
I can access other menu items from mail (such a preferences), but again, those
menu items do not respond once they are displayed. I'm running WinNT service
pack 6 on an 800mhz Dell PC.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Browser
2. Click on mail, news, preferences, or other.

Actual Results:  Browser displayed menu itme correctly, but I was unable to
interact with item. My mouse clicks had no effect on the items in the window.
Within the brosser window it's self, all appears to be fine, and I can click on
items as expected. The problem only appears to effect items which are opened
from the menu.

Expected Results:  I should have been able to read mail, expand the prefferences
menuse from the "+" to "-" and see the sub itmes. But there was no responce to
my mouse clicks.

Comment 1

[Douglas Bagnall]

likewise for me, with Windows 2000 sp2 (5.00.2195), AMD k6 with 256 Mb, using
the talkback enabled 1.0rc1 build (I don't have its build id since I've had to
switch back to 0.9.9).

Comment 2

[Ian Tommins ('thelem')]

When I had this bug it also prevented me from pressing enter while in the
location bar, I don't know id that is related.

The work around is to uninstall and reinstall mozilla. Or install to a different
location.

I believe this is a problem with the tree control.

It happens to a lot of people, so telling them the above workaround is not a
valid solution.

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

reporter (John): can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla (for
example, 1.2alpha)? if so, please comment again with details. if not, please
resolve this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 4

[John Turner]

Now works for me under latest builds.

Comment 5

[Michael Lefevre]

thanks for the response.

verified.