226186 - Web page jumps up and down when all toolbar bookmarks are removed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221503

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Anton Jenkins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When I delete all the bookmarks in the bookmarks toolbar, the page that I am
currently viewing repeatedly jumps up and down by a few pixels. It's almost as
if the browser is trying to close the toolbar because it's empty but then
decides to reopen it. This results in the browser window shaking furiously! :o)

The problem is easily solved by placing a new bookmark in the toolbar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to a webpage
2. Delete all bookmarks from the bookmark toolbar
3. Get ready to shake!

Actual Results:  
Browser window repeatedly shakes

Expected Results:  
Not shaked

Comment 1

[Wayne Woods]

Hi Anton, it works for me in Win XP, 20031116 Firebird/0.7+ I can delete
everything on the bookmarks toolbar and the browser window remains stable.

It's possible that it's been fixed between your official 0.7 release and the
nightly release I'm using, so one thing to try out would be to download a fresh
nightly and see if that fixes it.

But before that, there's a few other things to consider:

- are you using the standard theme that comes with the browser, or another
theme? If the latter, will it still flicker if you use the standard theme?

- are you using any extensions with Firebird? If so, what happens if you remove
them? One of them might be affecting the appearance.

- Some browser appearance problems result from small glitches in your user
preferences. If you load Firebird with a fresh profile, does the problem still
occur? You can do this by either trashing your current user profile
(temporarily) or starting the profile manager (see:
http://texturizer.net/firebird/faq.html#profilemanager)

Let us know if any of these fix it. Cheers :)

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Bug was fixed for Mozilla, but not in Mozilla 1.5
Bug 219643 Window shakes if empty Personal toolbar is expanded.

Comment 3

[Anton Jenkins]

To answer Wayne's questions : im using a fresh out of the box version of 
firebird with no skins, plugins or anything. Deleting the bookmarks out of the 
toolbar was literally the first thing I did upon launching the application for 
the first time.

I will try the nightly build when I have a chance to see if this resolves the 
problem and get back to you.

Cheers.

Anton

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221503 ***

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change