225607 - css menu link selection fails : only close the css popup without loading the ling

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102578

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Stephane Louise]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030728

The pure CSS menu won't work under linux PPC.
E.g. going on the famous Pure CSS Menu page
(http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html) and bringing on the
:hover  menu in the top left corner correctly popup the menu, and the sublinks
when the mouse move over the subentries. Nonetheless when cliking on a link, and
althought the correct link displays on the link diplay at the bottom of mozilla
window, the navigator doesn't load the corresponding page. The menu shuts and
that's all. This bug is reproducible on every Gecko engines I tested (Mozilla
1.0.0 from debian woody, mozilla 1.4 from mozilla site, and Firebird 0.6.1 from
debian sarge). I tested Mozilla 1.4 from the Mozilla page to be sure that the
bug is not debian specific, but I had allready the bug with old mozilla nightly
builds before the official 1.0 on linux PPC 2000 (old linux distribution for PPC
based computers). It is specific to linux on PPC, it works fine on linux x86 and
on Mac OS 9 or X with Mozilla or Camino.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load a page with a CSS menu in the browser
2. open the CSS menu
3. click on a link of the menu

Actual Results:  
The menu shuts, but the link doesn't loads.

Expected Results:  
shut the menu and load the link.

Gnome was the default desktop environement each time I tested, but no real
specific release (1.2 on linux PPC 2000, 1.4 on woody and 2.2 on sarge).
As specified above, it seems specific to linux on PPC target, and happens with
several Gecko based navigators.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What window-manager are you using?

Comment 2

[Stephane Louise]

You are right, it is WM related after all. It didn't strike me before even tough
I use several window manager at home and at work. As you can guess, I only use
linux PPC at home with whatever default window manager comes with gnome 
(sawfish on gnome 1.4 and metacity with gnome 2.2). At work, I mostly use
WindowMaker with gnome on linux x86 and Solaris 2.5.1. I did not made any
connection between those facts.
So, I just tried WindowMaker and TWM and it works fine... :-/
Now i feel quite stupid. Well, have you got some pointers on why Sawfish and
Metacity fail such a bad way and trigger this very specific bug ?

Comment 3

[Joe McCabe]

gtk build after checkin for 102578 (2003111709) makes the menus at 
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html work as expected (pop up,
provide submenus, and allow clickthrough).

This issue seems resolved by 102578.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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