1490614 - Search suggestion dropdown inside Overflow menu is not dismissed when open another panel

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Anca Soncutean, Desktop QA]

[Affected versions]: 
- Release 62.0
- DedEdition 63.0b5 
- Nightly 64.0a1 (2018-09-11)

[Affected platforms]:
- Windows 10 x64
- macOS 10.13
- Ubuntu 16.04 x64

[Steps to reproduce]:
- Go to Menu - Customize and drag and drop several items (Search bar included) inside the Overflow menu and than click on the Done button
- Open the Overflow menu an input any characters inside the Search bar
- While the Search panel is opened, click on another option that opens a panel (eg. Bookmarks menu)

[Expected result]:
- The Search bar panel is dismissed at once

[Actual result]:
- The Search bar is still displayed over the new opened panel

[Regression range]: 
- I don’t think this is a regression, but I will come back with a certain conclusion as soon as possible.

[Additional Notes]:
- See the screencast with the issue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bgk2Ov1a7Ps6K24XG6tpLXVysZ2vYQCn/view?usp=sharing

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Anca Soncutean [:Anca], Desktop Release QA from comment #0)
> - See the screencast with the issue:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bgk2Ov1a7Ps6K24XG6tpLXVysZ2vYQCn/view?usp=sharing

Please can you make this publicly accessible?

Comment 2

[Anca Soncutean, Desktop QA]

Attachment: Screenscast issue.gif

Sorry about that! For better visibility, I will attach the screencast directly.

Comment 3

[Anca Soncutean, Desktop QA]

This is certainly not a regression, I could see the same behavior inside the Overflow Menu, way back to Fx 56.0a1 (2017-06-15) and even on older builds, Fx 31.0a1, if the Search bar was dragged inside the Menu.

Comment 7

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is set to S4. However, the following bug duplicate has higher severity:

• Bug 1635088: S3

:standard8, could you consider increasing the severity of this bug to S3?

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