1570983 - The What's New Panel is wrongly dismissed when you click any part that is not an actionable element

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Messaging System, defect, P1)

Description

[Ciprian Muresan [:cmuresan], Ecosystem QA]

Attachment: panel wrongly dismissed when clicked in blank spaces.gif

[Affected versions]:

• Firefox Nightly 70.0a1, Build ID 20190802094835

[Affected Platforms]:

• All Windows
• All Mac
• All Linux

[Prerequisites]:

• Have the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.devtoolsEnabled pref set to true.

[Steps to reproduce]:

1. Start the browser with a new clean profile.
2. Trigger the What's New toolbar button and click it.
3. Scroll down the panel if needed and click the bottom part of it.
4. Observe the behavior.

[Expected results]:

• The Panel remains open.

[Actual results]:

• The Panel is dismissed.

[Notes]:

• The issue is also reproducible if you click the horizontal bars that separate the messages.
• The issue is also reproducible if you click the left and right-most border of the panel.
• The Panel is also dismissed when doing this if it was accessed through the Firefox Menu button.
• Attached a screen recording of the issue.

Comment 1

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream/pull/5259

Comment 2

[Andrei Oprea [:andreio]]

Attachment: Bug 1570983 - The What's New Panel is wrongly dismissed

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/368c12cd504f
The What's New Panel is wrongly dismissed r=Mardak

Comment 4

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/368c12cd504f

Comment 5

[Ciprian Muresan [:cmuresan], Ecosystem QA]

I have verified that the issue is no longer reproducible on the latest Firefox Beta 70.0b4, and Nightly 71.0a1 on Windows 10, macOS 10.14, and Arch Linux 14.4.3.