143106 - Sub menus select first item when clicking on submenu title/container

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130855

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Michael Sinz]

This one is somewhat hard to explain.  It happens on current (1.0 branch) builds
and has been happening for a while now.

When a menu has an item that is a submenu, clicking on that item will select the
first item in the submenu.

The expected behavior is to temporarily lock the submenu open such that the user
can move the mouse to the submenu without it going away.  This is how most all
other applications work, including older Netscape versions, all Windows
programs, and the MAC (OS 8.5/9/X)

For example, it you click on the "Show/Hide" line under the View menu it will
automatically pick the first item in the submenu (which is Navigation Toolbar
in this case)

Under traditional Motif (don't kill me, it is not that I like it) you click on
the submenu container to display the submenu.  Under windows, clicking on the
submenu container will pin that submenu up (for some definition of pinning)
The same pinning behavior is true on other applications on the Mac, Windows, and
many/most Linux programs.

Comment 1

[Michael Sinz]

Attachment: Helpfull image for the description (maybe)

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

when you say 'current branch builds' what exactly do you mean. 

See bug 130855. This should be fixed in branch builds on or after 4/30, and in 
todays 05/08 1.0.0 branch mozilla build, I can no longer reproduce this 
behaviour.

Comment 3

[Michael Sinz]

I mean the 1.0.0 branch builds.  I did a build yesterday morning.  I will try
again today.

Comment 4

[Michael Sinz]

You are correct, the problem is gone now in the 1.0.0 branch builds.  I assume
that the trunk is already working (that build is running now...)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130855 ***

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd
"massdupverification"