1899654 - Tab bar remains ghosted after an update (release) until next restart

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

restarted Firefox release 126.0.1. First-run-after-update tab opened. Tab bar was dimmed/ghosted. Right-clicked the first-run tab, closed it. Tab bar remained ghosted until I restarted the browser

Comment 1

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Hey jesup,

By dimmed/ghosted, do you mean that the browser window, after restart, would not foreground, even when clicking it? If so, I suspect (since I think you're on macOS) that this might be a Core :: Widget: Cocoa bug.

Comment 2

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

The window appeared foreground, and as mentioned I could right-click tabs. IIRC I also browsed tabs to other links; but the tab bar stayed in the ghosted state until restart.

Comment 3

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

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Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me) from comment #0)

restarted Firefox release 126.0.1. First-run-after-update tab opened. Tab bar was dimmed/ghosted. Right-clicked the first-run tab, closed it. Tab bar remained ghosted until I restarted the browser

I'm confused by the summary saying "... if you don't respond to the first-run tab after an update", but the above makes it sound like a restart fixed the problem, and responding to the first-run tab did not. Could you please clarify?

(In reply to Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me) from comment #2)

The window appeared foreground, and as mentioned I could right-click tabs. IIRC I also browsed tabs to other links; but the tab bar stayed in the ghosted state until restart.

From our side, like mconley said, the only thing that should make the tab bar appear ghosted is the window not being the active one. So if it wasn't that, I can't explain what you saw. Maybe the activeness wasn't propagated all the way through Gecko... Anyway, to help us make sense of this, the next time this happens, could you please take a screenshot?

Comment 5

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

I've only seen this once, but if it happens again I will screenshot.
The tab that opens after an update "you've been updated to Firefox 999!" opened. Tab bar remained ghosted. I closed the 'first-run-after-update' tab; tab bar continued to be ghosted. I know I clicked on a few tabs to see if that would fix it, it didn't. I may have clicked on some other program, but that's much less sure - I don't remember. I then quit and restarted firefox, and it was normal.

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Okay, sounds like the upgrade page may be a red herring.

I'll move this to Cocoa for now, hopefully they'll have further ideas.

Comment 7

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

Unfortunately, I don't have any further ideas. If the tab and web content was responsive to mouse clicks, scrolls etc. it's unlikely that we had a modal dialog open (which could have stolen focus). Let's investigate this if/when we see this again.