1474423 - popups autohide after opening non-gecko sub-popups

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect, P5)

Description

[Christoph Zwerschke]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180704003137

Steps to reproduce:

To reproduce this issue, you can use the cookie-bg-picker web-extension example that can be found here:

https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/cookie-bg-picker

Contrary to its name, that example extension does not feature a color picker, so you need to add one by replacing the code for the reset button in bgpicker.html,

    <button>Reset</button>

with the code for a color picker:

    <input type="color" value="#a00000">

Make sure you use the default settings and don't have autohide disabled in the Debugger, as explained here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Debugging#Debugging_popups


Actual results:

Now when you click on the button of the cookie-bg-picker web extension, you should see a red button that corresponds to the color picker.

When you click that red button, the color picker opens, but the popup of the web extension closes.


Expected results:

The color picker should open, and the popup of the web extension should also stay open, like when you click on any other input element.

Comment 1

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Hi, i tried reproducing this issue using Firefox Nightly 63.0a1 (2018-07-11) but without any success, after i set the ui.popup.disable_autohide = "true" in "about:config" the pop-up from the web extension would also stay open once the color picker is opened.

Can you try reproducing this issue using a fresh profile? you have the steps here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Comment 2

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Right, when ui.popup.disable_autohide = true, which is a setting intended to be used for debugging purposes only, then the popup stays open. But when ui.popup.disable_autohide = false, which is the default setting, then it closes.

I can reproduce it with 61.0.1 and Nightly 63.0a1 (2018-07-11). Note that I have tested it under Windows 10. Maybe it behaves differently on other OSes.

Comment 3

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Yes it does reproduce for me as well when the ui.popup.disable_autohide = false, i will set the component for this one to Toolkit Add-on manager

Comment 4

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

This is a very long standing issue with popups in Firefox.  There are several types of popups that will not work from within a popup, this is just one.  You're probably better off finding a js library that implements its own color picker than trying to get popups within popups to work right.