163241 - The back button history menu sticks. Press Escape or click on back button again clears menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170736

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[MRobins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722

After accessing a URL by using the 'back' button (history) on the top of the
screen, very often the down arrow will be greyed and appears to be stuck. Text
will not enter into a text box until I manually go and select the back button
again, or hit the escape key. This happens on a regular basis.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
after the back history is used, it should release.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

apple1, are you saying that the back button pop-up menu sticks open, or that the menu closes 
after use, but the back button is no longer functional, even though it should be?

Comment 2

[Ian Sidle]

I get the same problem. It does the same thing for foreword too, although I use
the back history a lot more commonly then I do the foreword. This happens also
in the mac os x build as well.

Perhaps I cann explain better...
when a new window is created, both the back and foreword buttons are "hidden" -
you can't click on them. The widgets are fadded out. After entering a url and
going there, does the back widget become active. So the problem is, after using
the history to go all the way back to the first page, the back button fades out
but the menu remains. So I can't then close the menu because the button is no
longer active. Although the menu is still there, covering up whatever is below.
I think it also doesn't allow whatever is below (like a tab) to function.

It doesn't happen every time and seemingly pops up randomly. I feel that it must
be a combination with some other action that... (maybe tooltips??)
 
This bug has happened to me many times.. I'm just not sure what the exact
conditions/combination that cause it to happen..


One way to fix it is to hit foreword, close the menu and then hit back again. 

Comment 3

[Sash]

confirming the floating back-menu pop-up stickiness and unresponsiveness on Mac
10.1.5 and Moz 1.1
While the menu is stuck as described, dragging around the browser window by
grabbing the bar on top keeps the stuck back-menu floating in the same spot
while moving the window around behind it.
Closing the window with the offending back-menu makes the floating back-menu
disappear.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Marking confirmed per comment 3. I can't find the dup just now.

Comment 5

[Jeb Adams]

Confirming the floating back-menu pop-up stickiness and unresponsiveness on Mac
OS X 10.2 and Mozilla 1.2b (it was happening in 1.1 as well)

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

In addition to the workaround mentioned in comment #3, one can also make a
selection from the floating window to get it to release. If one switches to
another tab and then selects from the hung dropdown, the page does not switch
(as it shouldn't--that back history is from another tab), but the dropdown does
release.

Comment 6

[Jeb Adams]

Attachment: Screen Capture of Sticky Back Dropdown behavior

Provided for those without OS X systems to see it in action. If you have OS X,
you see this bug every day. :(

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

==> default owner

Comment 8

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170736 ***