255426 - XPInstall - software installation message disappears when switching tabs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Eng]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.1+

The yellow software installation information bar that appears when clicking on
an XPI link that's not in Firefox's software install whitelist disappears when
switching back and forth to another tab.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the Options dialog box (Tools | Options), choose Web Features and ensure
that the "Allow web sites to install software" option is checked.
2. Open a new browser tab.
3. Go to a Web page with an XPI link.  The Web site should not be listed in the
Allowed Sites UI (accessible from the "Web Features" -> "Allow web sites to
install software" option of the Options dialog box).
3. Click on the XPI link.  The software installation info bar should appear
above the browser content area.
4. Switch to the first browser tab, then switch back to the second.

Actual Results:  
The software installation info bar disappeared.

Expected Results:  
The software installation info bar should remain in place.

This problem does not occur when switching between browser windows.

Comment 1

[Alex Eng]

This problem also occurs with the popup blocker info bar.  This was reported in
bug 255162.

Comment 2

[Alex Eng]

This bug no longer reproduces as of the 2004-08-16 build.  It may have been
fixed along with related bug 255162, but cannot locate exact checkin in Bonsai,
so closing as WFM.