1968949 - Hard to select results from dropdowns inside about:preferences that have the search tooltip active

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: Gif showing the issue

Found in

• Nightly 141.0a1

Affected versions

• Firefox 139.0
• Firefox 140.0b1
• Nightly 141.0a1

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: macOS 13, Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04
• Unaffected platforms:

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit about:preferences
2. Search the string never
3. Click in the dropdown menu from History and try to select another option there

Expected result

• User can toggle the options in the menus without issues

Actual result

• Toggling the options in a dropdown when the search tooltip is active is very hard

Regression range

• First bad: 2025-04-14
• Last good: 2025-04-13
• Pushlog: https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=7c7a6cf3f52e22ae7546e362391cf72fcc3e192c&tochange=34cc7a34305a2af1d16ace0ac3286952b9ad7766
• Potentially regressed by: Bug 1959540 - Simplify XUL menu structure

Additional notes

• From what I can tell all the dropdowns from about:preferences are affected by this issue.

Comment 1

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

Attachment: Bug 1968949 - menu-highlightable-text should not react to pointer-events. r=#theme

Much like menu-text.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/c82309558e7a
menu-highlightable-text should not react to pointer-events. r=desktop-theme-reviewers,dao

Comment 3

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c82309558e7a

Comment 4

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

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:emilio, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
  • See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Requesting_an_Uplift for documentation on how to request an uplift.
• If no, please set status-firefox140 to wontfix.

For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 5

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio)]

Comment on attachment 9491285 [details]
Bug 1968949 - menu-highlightable-text should not react to pointer-events. r=#theme

Beta/Release Uplift Approval Request

• User impact if declined/Reason for urgency: comment 0, trivial fix
• Is this code covered by automated tests?: No
• Has the fix been verified in Nightly?: Yes
• Needs manual test from QE?: Yes
• If yes, steps to reproduce:
• List of other uplifts needed: none
• Risk to taking this patch: Low
• Why is the change risky/not risky? (and alternatives if risky): Trivial css fix
• String changes made/needed: none
• Is Android affected?: No

Comment 6

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

Looks fixed using the latest Nightly 141.0a1 across platforms (Windows 11, macOS 13 and Ubuntu 22.04)

Comment 7

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Comment on attachment 9491285 [details]
Bug 1968949 - menu-highlightable-text should not react to pointer-events. r=#theme

Approved for 140.0b3

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/b90090b2c0f9

Comment 9

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

Looks fixed using the latest Beta build 140.0b1 from treeherder across platforms (Windows 11, macOS 13 and Ubuntu 22.04)

Comment 10

[(Out Sep 17-23) Ryan VanderMeulen]

Comment on attachment 9491285 [details]
Bug 1968949 - menu-highlightable-text should not react to pointer-events. r=#theme

Approved for 139.0.4

Comment 11

[Pulsebot]

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/156221d92b54
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/811a7a4c6940

Comment 12

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

Also verified that this is fixed using the latest Release build from treeherder across platforms (Windows 11, macOS 13 and Ubuntu 22.04).

Comment 13

[(Out Sep 17-23) Ryan VanderMeulen]

Added to the 139.0.4 relnotes.

Fixed difficult selection of drop-down menu options in the Firefox preferences page when selected via the in-page search.