262757 - Blocks drawn over main window - apparently due to poor focus handling on find toolbar

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[pbhj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1

Summary says it all really.

Occasionally I get grey blocks overdrawn the main window. From then on when I
mouseover a widget it gets overdrawn with gray. It appears to happen when I do a
<ctrl>-F and start typing without checking the mouse is over the textbox.
This has happened several times this evening (and I think, but could be wrong,
on IE6 on WinXP SP2 too, like I say I might of dreamt that!).

The initially overdrawing I think is always over the find toolbar?!

This is exceedingly annoying, I'm almost afraid to search now for ruining my
session. The browser doesn't crash, it just becomes unusable. I can still scroll.

Also if a second window is open I can use that OK (and close the window with the
overdrawing).

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox
2. Ctrl-F
3. Start typing

Actual Results:  
Gray blocks appear overlaying toolbars and other widgets.

Expected Results:  
Worked!

Comment 1

[Gary van der Merwe]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001
Firefox/0.10

Dose this happen on spicific pages? Please can you give us urls to those pages.

Comment 2

[Gary van der Merwe]

No resonce from reporter. ->Invalid

Comment 3

[pbhj]

Actually I haven't really noticed this on Windows, but perhaps 'cause I usually
use Linux (Slackware 10.0) -- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1

I think I've tracked it down to the integrated search dialof (ctrl-f) that
appears as a toolbar above the status bar (bottom of window). After some time
Firefox becomes sluggish (may be unrelated memory leaks) and eventually the
blocking effect occurs when I try to search.

Haven't established yet whether it is a focus problem in that it appears to
happen when I start typing search terms without first focussing (with mouse
pointer) the search toolbar's text box.

Sorry this was not posted earlier, I only just got an email to say it was being
considered.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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