1417394 - Window created from contextMenus with browser.windows.create shows white screen even though DOM is there

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1408446

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect)

Description

[Alex]

Attachment: context_menu_bug_demo.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.75 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. unpack zip archive
2. in the folder run 'web-ext run --firefox=/path/to/firefox57'
3. go to any URL in the browser and right click there
4. select "Demo Context Menu Bug"
5. new window will open


Actual results:

window with white screen is opened, but DOM is there. Right click in that window triggers content appearance


Expected results:

Content should be showed from the beginning without any clicks

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

Attachment: Screenshot 2017-11-23 09.53.13.png

What operating system are you on? On OS X I get the screenshot attached, which I think is what I should get.

Comment 2

[Alex]

Bug occurred at Linux Ubuntu 16.04

Comment 3

[Thomas Oberndörfer]

Can confirm empty window occurs also for browser.windows.create with type: 'popup' and without context menu involved. Only on Linux.