148921 - Searching does not open Mozilla sidebar

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[bk039]

In Mozilla 2002051006 (old build, but should be confirmable on a newer one):

The sidebar does not open upon when searching Bugzilla or another search page.

To reproduce this:
1. Ensure that the "open sidebar when search results are available" preference
option is checked.
2. Open a new Mozilla window, ensuring that the sidebar is never opened for that
window.
3. Click on the URL above, or perform a search on Bugzilla or another search engine.

Expected Results: The sidebar should pop-up with the search results.
Actual Results: The sidebar does not appear.

This bug will not occurr if the sidebar has been opened at least once for that
window.

Comment 1

[sujay]

--> search

Comment 2

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Confirming with Mozilla 1.0

Comment 3

[James Lockie]

I don't ever want the sidebar to open, it takes up valuable screen real estate.
I'm going to submit a new bug because the sidebar started opening for me when I
do a search.
It never used to open.

Mozilla 	
Mozilla 1.8a2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040624

Comment 4

[u36606]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't ever want the sidebar to open, it takes up valuable screen real estate.
> I'm going to submit a new bug because the sidebar started opening for me when I
> do a search.
> It never used to open.

The sidebar should open *if and only if* the Preference Internet Search: "open
sidebar when search results are available" is activated.
If you don't want the sidebar to open for search results, you should disable
this preference. (should be disabled by default, I hope)
When this preference is set however, the sidebar should open, no matter whether
it was opened before or not.
But it doesn't and that's the bug. Still there in Mozilla 1.7.3 BTW.

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420