292665 - XUL statusbar popup and context menu not working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Jan Dittmer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050406 Firefox/1.0.2 (Debian package 1.0.2-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050406 Firefox/1.0.2 (Debian package 1.0.2-3)

As the descriptions says, the following xul code does not work if used in an
extension. Tested firefox/mozilla, linux/win32.
No context menu or popup menu is showing. If you remove the x before onclick
you can see, that it cannot even find the element.
I'll attach a file with the full minimal extension to reproduce.
Note, that if you install AdBlock at the same time, the popups magically work.
(http://l4x.org/sspo-build30.xpi)

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://sspo/content/sspo.css" type="text/css"?> 

<overlay id="sspo-overlay" 
  xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">

        <popupset id="sspo_popupset">
        <menupopup id="sspo_menu" position="after_start">
                <menuitem label="testlabel"/>
        </menupopup>
        </popupset>
        <statusbar id="status-bar" insertafter="statusbarpanel-updates"        
                        class="statusbarpanel-text">
                <statusbarpanel label="SSPO"
                        context="sspo_menu" popup="sspo_menu"
                        id="ssop-statusbarpanel"
                        xonclick="alert(document.getElementById('sspo_menu'));"/>
        </statusbar>
</overlay>


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jan Dittmer]

Attachment: Demo extension to show the problem

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is it possible to have a non-extension XUL file showing the problem (i.e. just
something one could load in a browser)?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

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By my reading of the code it shouldn't work, because the popupset will fail to
find anywhere to overlay.