256577 - Context menu in sidebar not working when opening specified website.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away July 24th - August 16th)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040822
Firefox/0.9.1+

When i open the URL specified above and the bookmark sidebar is open i can't add
a new bookmark or folder over the context menu. The dialog doesn't appear. After
switching to another tab and back all works fine. Reloading the page results in
the same behavior as before.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away July 24th - August 16th)]

I tested more deeply and checked that the whole context menu isn't working and
not only new bookmark or folder.

Comment 2

[rob cherny]

this may be the same thing as bug 256679

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away July 24th - August 16th)]

*** Bug 256679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[the_madman]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I tested more deeply and checked that the whole context menu isn't working and
> not only new bookmark or folder.

in Firefox 1.0PR under WinXP, i find that sometimes the bookmarks context menu
is unresponsive on its own, if the item being right-clicked is NOT left-clicked
first

steps to reproduce:
1.- have at least a bookmark (bkm)
2.- left-click on any bkm (opening it. middle clicking bkm to open a tab works
the same as if this step was missed)
3.- right-click any bkm and attempt any context operation (should work)
3.- right-click any bkm and attempt any context operation (doesn't work)

note: you can do all steps on the same bookmark. Menu seems to work if activated
right after clicking on any bookmark sidebar item, folders and separators included.

Comment 5

[the_madman]

even more testing, found the following:

step 2 in my previous post includes not only separators and folders, but empty
spaces and scrollbar too! (not the search field, text or the sidebar title)

Considering that all of this seems to be in a frame (?) i could guess it's a
focus issue. That is, a quick fix would be making the right-click grab focus
before displaying the menu.

Comment 6

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

We'll live without this fix for 1.0.  Also not a bookmarks bug -- punting to
general, since I've no idea where it should go.

Comment 7

[rob cherny]

Obviously I don't make the decisions, and I'm not a C++ guy so I can't really
help, but from a product management perspective seems to me for a "polished" 1.0
product you'd want to hide the context menu on the sidebar if it doesn't work.
My two cents (not much more!). Course, it might be easier just to fix it, I have
no idea. I know about it, so I can subsist on opening a new tab or window for
the links there. Others though ... 

Flipside, I guess it's a pretty obscure feature anyway.

Comment 8

[Ondrej Brablc]

I just want to refresh this bug with information that 1.0.3 still has this bug.

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away July 24th - August 16th)]

This bug does not appear with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7)
Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)

Comment 10

[kschlamp]

But it´s still there under WinXP and Firefox 1.0.3

Comment 11

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away July 24th - August 16th)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Firefox/1.0.3

OS => WinXP

Comment 12

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 303519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This seems to work nowadays...