277712 - personal bookmarks bar names disappear

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Tom Dillon]

I loaded ther latest nightly build of Firefox on 1/8/2005
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050108
Firefox/1.0+
When I select any of the names in the personal bookmarks bar now, the name
disappears leaving an arrow for folders, or a blank on single linked pages

Comment 1

[Bryce Christensen]

I am using Firefox 1.0 and my personal bookmarks toolbar just changed to a set
of arrows.  I was able to bring it back by turning the toolbar off and then on
again, but it seemed very strange.  I have several tabs open:  My Yahoo, my
hotmail inbox, a syllabus for one of my classes (static content).  I am not
absolutely sure when it occurred- I let my computer go into sleep mode while I
went to a meeting and had used the toolbar before the meeting and had used it
after the meeting before it "minimized" (for lack of the technical term). 
Runing XP Home SP2 on an HP Pavilion Laptop.

Comment 2

[Arun]

Attachment: Toolbar shrunk.

Comment 3

[Arun]

Attachment: The same tool bar usually appears expanded...

Comment 4

[Arun]

Read following with reference to the attachments - 176147,176148.

I have experienced the same problem. I have a few of folders in my personal tool
bar and it 'usually' appears in a line laid out neatly (occupying say 60 - 75%
of the available width). Sometimes it 'minimizes' itself to the double arrow
(>>) at the left corner of the screen. I have noticed this happening sometimes
when I open a new tab, but I don't see this happening often. This is on a
Windows XP machine.  I have a screen capture of it too.
And usually when the tool bar shrinks, I resize the window and it reappears back
fine. 

Comment 5

[Rene Marth]

I can confirm this behaviour on two different systems with Windows NT4 and
Windows 2000  (latest patch level). It's independent from the version of Firefox
- i can not remember when i saw this bug the first time. Maybe some 0.9.x?

One of my systems is a multi-monitor system (2) and if FF is on the secondary
monitor the previous mentioned resizing of the window doesn't fix this. But on
the primary monitor resizing window fix that behaviour. Maybe this can help to
find the bug!?

Bug occurs randomly...

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Rene Marth]

I still have this bug with firefox 1.5 beta1 on WinXPSP2

Comment 8

[Don Rylander]

I only recently began experiencing this bug.  I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 on Win XP Pro SP2.

Note that the toolbar redraws properly if you force a redraw by resizing the main window, changing something in the toolbar folder via the Manage Bookmarks window (adding or removing an item), etc.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

related to bug 174390?

Comment 10

[Greg Hrebek]

Hardware Platform:	PC

Operating System:	Windows XP SP2

Build Identifier:	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060123 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Reproducibility:	None.

Summary:	Bug could not be reproduced on the latest available build.  

Reproduction Steps:	

Loaded latest nightly build and then selected several personal bookmarks. Confirmed that they opened properly and that they remained on my toolbar.  Added a few new bookmarks so that the toolbar was full, selected them, and confirmed they opened properly and remained on my toolbar.  I then let the computer sit for 35 minutes where the computer entered sleep mode. When the computer was awoken I tested each bookmark to ensure it opened properly and remained on my toolbar.

Analysis:	

It is possible that this bug exists, however more detailed information such as exactly what he user was doing when the bug occurred (i.e. did they just add a new bookmark), how many bookmarks were on the toolbar when the bug occurred, or actions used to rectify the bug if possible (i.e. forcing a redraw of the toolbar).

Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 12

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Greg Hrebek, is this still an issue with a current firefox version like firefox 2.0.0.3 ? 

Works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070519 BonEcho/2.0.0.4pre ID:2007051903

Comment 13

[Aaron Racine]

WFM.  

I added more folders than would fit on the toolbar, and the arrows show up on the right, as expected.  I hid and un-hid the toolbar with no change.  I clicked on all the folders, and they all opened and closed as expected.  Deleting folders changed the toolbar as expected.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/2007051502 Firefox/2.0.0.4

Comment 14

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

WFM as well using Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Windows XP SP 2.