215172 - New menu changes behavior depending on the current window state

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 204418

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Kevin "Hypoxia" Harris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

In the File menu, when Firebird launches and opens a browser window, the New
menu simply says "New Window" with "New Tab" after it.  If you close the browser
window, the New menu changes behavior and becomes a hierarchial menu with
similar subitems "New Navigator Window", "New Navigator Tab".  Choosing the
latter does nothing...because there is no window open.  New Navigator Window
opens a new browser as expected. My opinion is that the menu should 1) retain
behaviors no matter whether a window is open or not and 2) the Tab menu should
be dimmed if there is no browser window open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firebird
2. Make note of the File menu's New command.
3. Close the browser window that opened after launch.
4. Note how the New menu has changed into a hierarchial menu.

Actual Results:  
The New command under the File menu changed it's behavior, from a typical menu
item to a hierarchial menu.

Expected Results:  
The menu should remain unchanged...either as a hierarchial menu or a standard item.

Comment 1

[Chris Casciano]

this is a dupe of bug 204418

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204418 ***