257189 - tools and help menu don't work after going into full screen mode and customizing menus

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Max]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

If you go into fullscreen mode, right-click the toolbar at the top, choose
'customize', scroll down a bit in the customize window that appears, hit 'done',
then press f11 again to get out of fullscreen mode, the tools and help menus
don't work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on f11
2. right-click on the menubar at the top of the screen
3. choose 'customize'
4. scroll down a bit with the scrollbar that appears.
5. hit 'done'.
6. press f11 again to get out of full screen mode.
7. try clicking on 'tools' or 'help'

Actual Results:  
Every time: clicking on 'tools' or 'help', their menu does not appear.
except... just now I tried and only 'help' didn't work.

Expected Results:  
The tools and help menus should have been shown.

Comment 1

[Max]

Attachment: 'tools' clicked on but no menu appears

Comment 2

[Clint Hamilton]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=157202)
> 'tools' clicked on but no menu appears

So how are you getting the right click to even work!  I don't even have a right 
click on the full screen toolbar!  Nothing happens when I right click it.  This 
is v1.0PR.
-Clint

Comment 3

[Max]

Hello,

This bug has now basically been fixed because it's no longer possible to
right-click in the toolbar in fullscreen mode.

Thanks!

Comment 4

[Clint Hamilton]

Hello.  I don't call that "fixed" by removing a feature!  ;-)  BTW, you CAN 
right click the toolbar in FS mode on FF .9.3....as long as you don't have a 
full screen extension installed.

Which brings up another bug: what the hell is deal with no taskbar in Full 
Screen View!  How the hell are you supposed to access your other open apps & 
webpages?  You have move your hand over to the keyboard and hit the Windows 
key, which of course also pops up the Start menu!  For the life of me, I cannot 
comprehend why FF would leave out such a USEFUL and NEEDED IE feature.
-Clint

Comment 5

[Max]

You can access your other open windows by using Alt+Tab or leaving full-screen
mode. If the taskbar is there, then it's not completely full-screen mode - but
this would be for another bug anyway.

Comment 6

[Clint Hamilton]

(In reply to comment #5)
> You can access your other open windows by using Alt+Tab or leaving full-screen
> mode. If the taskbar is there, then it's not completely full-screen mode - but
> this would be for another bug anyway.

Hello, that's not what I mean.  In IE, all you have to do in full screen view 
is simply hover your cursor at the bottom and the taskbar shows.  One should 
not have to, and it's a pain, to have hit keys on the keyboard or leave full 
screen view to access other apps; instead of the simple and quick IE method.

I can't believe the "geniuses" that designed FF felt the need that no one needs 
access to the Taskbar!! I found only one extension so far that gives you the 
full screen view WITH taskbar autohide/hide like IE, but incredibly this is 
another "genius" that left something CRITICAL out; and that is the icons: "-" 
(minimize), [restore icons], and "X" icons are MISSING from the toolbar in full 
screen view! The only way in it to close a full screen view is making the 
taskbar show, then right clicking the window, then "close"; or clicking 
the "Full screen" icon again, then clicking the "X" at upper right. This is yet 
another reason why FF will never overtake IE--the omission of NEEDED CRITICAL 
features (or bugs).

I've give my left n*t for full screen in FF to be like IE.
-Clint