202039 - Selecting from Javascript menu sporadic under gnome

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102578

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Sean Kamath]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030404
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030404

A reasonably complex javascript menu fails on mozilla (versions 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3
and 1.4a) under gnome (version 1.4 on Solaris 8, 2.0 on Solaris 9, and unknown
versions on RedHat 8 and 9).  Failure mode appears to be timing related (one
click in 5 seems to take you to the link in the menu, the rest do nothing).
Xerox doesn't have a handy way to post the web page.  Dunno how to attach to
this bug (I'm hoping I can do it later).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load sample page
2. mouse over menu (menu pops up)
3. select any item

Actual Results:  
1 out of 5 times, proper behaviour (load of new page)
4 out or 5 times, no action (or error reported).

Expected Results:  
Load of new page

No crash, stock (downloaded latest available beta).  Using the Sun compiled
version with the Sun compiled GTK libraries (well, on the RedHat machines, stock
RedHat 8 and 9.

Comment 1

[Sean Kamath]

Attachment: Test Page

This is a reduced web page from an application that has this problem.
open with file:///path/to/toolbar.html
mouse over "Operations"
Select a funky chicken.  Sometimes it will open a new page with "fc#".
Only with Gnome will this problem appear, it seems.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking duplicate of what I'm 99% sure was causing the problem, but please
reopen if this is still an issue in a current build.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102578 ***