189991 - Sidebar will not open

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Dr. David J. Knowles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

In the current 1.3a release it is not possible to open the side bar.
Clicking on the sidebar drag point merely changes the arrow directions.
It is not possible to click and drag on the sidebar to enlarge the sidebar. This
is with the arrows in either position.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to open the sidebar using double click. Fails
2. Try to drag open the sidebar. Fails
3.

Actual Results:  
Double clicking changes the arrows but nothing else.
The drag pointer appears when hovering over the sidebar but click and drag does
nothing.

Expected Results:  
The sidebar should open.

Using the modern theme. 
Using mouse gestures 0.3.5

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this a problem without the mouse gestures package?

Comment 2

[Dr. David J. Knowles]

The problem continues to exist once the gestures support has been uninstalled.

I have even replaced the installation of Mozilla 1.3a with the original zip
archive: mozilla-win32-1.3a-talkback.zip (size: 11,319,190 bytes).

In both cases the problem still exists.

I subsequently returned to an archived 1.2.1 version of mozilla but the
behaviour continues.

Is there some setting in the personal data area which could be causing this.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That's possible... could you try creating a new profile using mozilla
-ProfileManager?

Comment 4

[Dr. David J. Knowles]

OK I have been playing with the localstore.rdf

There is a section there:
This is the settings when the sidebar would not open

  <RDF:Description about="chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul#sidebar-box"
                   hidden="true"
                   width="161"
                   collapsed="true" />

After closing mozilla and editing the file and setting hidden and collapsed to
false the sidebar appeared when mozilla was next opened.

This is the setting with the sidebar open:

<RDF:Description about="chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul#sidebar-box"
                   hidden="false"
                   width="132" />

This is now the setting with the sidebar closed:

  <RDF:Description about="chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul#sidebar-box"
                   hidden="false"
                   width="161"
                   collapsed="true" />

I think with both hidden and collapsed set to true the browser would not open
the sidebar.

Comment 5

[Kai Stukenbrock]

Same here, with Moz 1.3b on WinNT 4 SP5, modern theme. 

Most of the time Sidebar will open neither by mouseclick, nor by pressing F9,
but can be opened via View / Show/Hide / Sidebar. After opening sidebar that
way, sidebar can be closed and opened again with mouseclick.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unable to get into this bad state with current builds.