229372 - page info tabs move around

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Page Info Window, defect)

Description

[Michael Newton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216 Firebird/0.7+

Bringing up the page info box and then clicking on the tabs will change the
display order of those tabs.  e.g. the orginal order is "General Forms Links
Media Security" but if I click on Links it changes to "General Links Forms Media
Security."  Clicking on Security then changes it to "General Links Security
Forms Media."  They seem to settle down after this.  I'm guessing an
incompatibility between two different chrome files or something.  I'm not
running any extensions or themes, by the way.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216
Firebird/0.7+

Comment 2

[Michael Newton]

Attachment: screenshot of bug

Here is what I'm seeing after a couple of clicks.  Notice the tabs change their
position.

Comment 3

[Mark Chandler]

I'm not seeing this problem - also using Windows 2000.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031222
Firebird/0.7+

Comment 4

[Michael Newton]

Tried this with the latest build on the 0.8 branch and had exactly the same
results.  I'm running Windows 2000 Server, although there really shouldn't be
any difference between that and Pro.  I'm going to try tomorrow at work where I
have Windows XP Pro installed...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031223
Firebird/0.7+

Comment 5

[alanjstr]

Confirmed Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b)
Gecko/20031223 Firebird/0.7+ (0.8 branch)

Need confirmation for other platforms.

Comment 6

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

that's bizzare. I'll look and see what I can see.

Comment 7

[Michael Newton]

I'm not seeing this issue on Windows XP, although I wasn't really expecting to
since other Windows 2000 users aren't seeing it either.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031226
Firebird/0.7+

Comment 8

[alanjstr]

1. It starts out as
General, Forms, Links, Media, Security

If you click Links, it re-orders to 
General, Links, Forms, Media, Security

If, instead, you click Media, it re-orders to 
General, Forms, Media, Links, Security

If, instead, you click Security, it re-orders to 
General, Forms, Links, Security, Media

And I'm on Win2k using the default theme and the latest 0.8 branch.  This isn't
a new problem, but I never paid enough attention to submit it.

Comment 9

[Chris Neale]

trunk cvs linux not affected, nor is branch cvs

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Works for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b)
Gecko/20040102 Firebird/0.7+

Comment 11

[alanjstr]

I still see it in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b)
Gecko/20040102 Firebird/0.7+

Comment 12

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040110 Firebird/0.8.0+
(daihard: XFT+GTK2; optimized for P4/SSE-2)

No tab movement at all when clicking around, although I have the LiveHTTPHeaders
extension installed. I don't boot Windows XP on my system anymore, so I can't
check Win32 Firebird.

Comment 13

[Bradley Chapman (not reading bugmail, still gone but not forever)]

Removing self from CC list.

Comment 14

[Georgi]

Can confirm thin on Windows XP with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 

It happens everytime and not only to Page Info window but and with other windows
of this tipe which have tabs, for example the "Edit User Files" extensions.

Comment 15

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

is anyone seeing this on current builds without any extensions?

Comment 16

[alanjstr]

No extensions, default and Pinball themes.

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040416
Firefox/0.8.0+

Probably a TBE thing?

Comment 17

[alanjstr]

Installed Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a)
Gecko/20040416 Firefox/0.8.0+ (scragz)

Installed MozFBRH and Pinball.  Noticed tabs moving around.  Disabled both and
restarted.  Tabs still move around.  Both were installed to the profile.

Comment 18

[Michael Newton]

I'm not seeing this behaviour in recent builds.  Anyone else?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Comment 19

[alanjstr]

I'm still seeing this with Firefox 0.9.2 and Pinball 0.9.2

Comment 20

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

alan, do you see this on clean profiles or just once you install some
extensions?  Any extension modifying the tabbox.xml functions (i.e. TBE's
tabreordering) could cause this.

Comment 21

[alanjstr]

Well, I just uninstalled TBE, restarted, and it still happens.

Comment 22

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I don't trust TBE's uninstall (or the extension in general)

does this happen on a clean profile?

Comment 23

[Georgi]

I can confirm it on Completely clean profile without extensions.

Comment 24

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

that's really bizarra, there's no code to support it, and no reason for it to
happen, and I can't replicate this on clean or dirty profiles.

Comment 25

[Robert Parenton]

Maybe we should take the testing a bit farther.  Does it happen on a clean
profile created after a clean install of Firefox?

Comment 26

[Michael Newton]

User agent strings?  This may only be affecting certain branches, certain OS, etc.

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Comment 27

[alanjstr]

I've been seeing it on Win2k for a very long time.  

Comment 28

[Anders Conbere]

I believe I have a fix for this

the problem I believe is located in tabbox.css in the following code.

Bellow is the css for the selected tab.  You'll notice however that the padding
goes out to 6px on the left

tab[selected="true"] {
  margin-top: 0;
  border-bottom-color: transparent;
  padding: 1px 6px 4px 6px;
}

however for the non-selected tabs the border is only 4px to the left.

tab 
{ ...
  
  padding: 1px 4px 2px 4px;
  background-color: -moz-Dialog;
  color: -moz-DialogText;
}

In my theme I've made the paddings the same for both selected and un-selected
tabs.  This has made the tabs stay in one place with a slight smooshing localy.  

bellow is how the code in my theme looks.

tab {

  margin-top: 2px;

  border-top: 1px solid #666;

  border-right: 1px solid #666;

  border-left: 1px transparent;

  border-bottom: 1px solid #666;

  padding: 4px 4px 2px 5px;

  background-color: #D9D9D9;

  color: #555;

}



.tab-text {

  margin: 0 !important;

}

tab[selected="true"] {
  margin-top: 0;
  background-color: #E9E9E9;
  border-left: 1px solid #666;
  border-right: 1px solid #666;
  border-bottom-color: #E9E9E9;
  -moz-border-radius-topleft: 2px;
  -moz-border-radius-topright: 2px;
  padding: 4px 4px 2px 5px;
  color: #222;
}

Comment 29

[alanjstr]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0 

Comment 30

[Anders Conbere]

heh... that's what I get for not looking at the screenshot... I was talking
about the way the tabs like to move around...while staying in the right order.

well maybe I'll file a new bug for that one

Anders

Comment 31

[Michael Newton]

I think this has been long fixed.  Reopen if you're still seeing this.