290890 - [regression] Help Window non-functional

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[philippe (part-time)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050418 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050418 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

The Help Window opens with a completely blank right pane. Clicking on a link in
the sidebar doesn't bring any page up. The toolbar icons are equally
non-fucnctional -- except for the 'Customize Toolbar' icon. The titlebar of the
Help Window is blank

Since 20050413. It works fine on 20050313.  I'll try to narrow down the
regression window later.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.From the menu bar --> Help > Browser Help
2.Opens the help window
3.

Actual Results:  
1. Blank right pane (contents area)
2. non-functional toolbar on top
3. unclickable links in the side bar.


Expected Results:  
Open a functional help window

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

Attachment: Screenshot of the help window on 20050418

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

I narrowed down the regression window:
works fine on 20050410
broken on 20050411

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

have you tried with extensions disabled , default theme ?

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> have you tried with extensions disabled , default theme ?

No extensions, fresh profile. Tested with the official builds.

Comment 5

[Ben Fowler]

Attachment: Patch to close string on line 20 (62 in source file)

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/components/help/content/help.js#62


(The same typo is NOT present in platformClasses.css)

Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

->New

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Comment on attachment 181116 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to close string on line 20 (62 in source file)

Waldo, that was your typo.

Comment 8

[Jeff Walden (gone starting June 8)]

Comment on attachment 181116 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to close string on line 20 (62 in source file)

Oops.

Typo fixes don't actually require review, so hopefully I don't have to get
approval for this.  If I need approval, I'll set the flag later.

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Comment on attachment 181116 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to close string on line 20 (62 in source file)

a=asa

Comment 10

[Jeff Walden (gone starting June 8)]

Patch is in.  I don't use a Mac, so on the off chance there's something else
going on here, please reopen.

Comment 11

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

this isn't fixed. :-/ I'll post the js errors later...

Comment 12

[Ben Fowler]

1. The help window wants to stay on top (and won't minimise). This make it 
impossible to open the Javascript Console whilst the Help is open.

2. I get this error in the Javascript Console"
Datasource: chrome://browser/locale/help/help-toc.rdf was not found.

but nothing else is obviously wrong.

Comment 13

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

err, from whatever reason this is wfm now... (in the same build). However, i
still see the jsconsole-message mentioned in comment 12

Comment 14

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #13)
>i still see the jsconsole-message mentioned in comment 12

that's bug 291006 Asaf

Comment 15

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

re-resolving. the js message isn't mac specific (see bug 291006).