305457 - New tabs no longer opening in foreground. Tabs not closing. Prefs menu disappearing.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[Jamie Dillon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050427 Camino/0.8.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050427 Camino/0.8.4

Camino has run fine for months. Suddenly this week, right-clicking or
command-clicking on a link no longer opens a link in the foreground. Stalls on
Loading. Plus the new empty tab won't close.
Went back to the default, leaving Load New Tabs in Background selected under
Tabbed Browsing in the prefs. Even then, command-W no longer closes a tab. The
window will close, leaving the vestigial tab open Clicking on the little x at
the right end of the tab works for a followup, ca 75% of the time.
Now also, the Prefs menu disappears almost every session. Quitting and
restarting Camino brings it back up for a time.
Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Deselect Load Tabs in Background under Tabbed Browsing pref.
2. Load a new tab by right-clicking a tab and selecting Open in New Tab
3.

Actual Results:  
New tabs won't load, as described above. Plus the whole Preferences menu
disappears, only headers showing.
Thanks!

Expected Results:  
Tabs open in foreground when that pref selected. Tabs close on command-W.
Preferences menu stay available.
Thanks again!

Comment 1

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

You're using 0.8.4 and this problem just "showed up"? Or have you been using a
nightly?

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

In addition to questions in comment 1, do things clear up if you move your old
profile aside and let Camino create a new one?  (profile = ~/Library/Application
Support/Camino folder)

Comment 3

[Jamie Dillon]

to Comment 1 - No nightlies. Been using 0.8.4 since it came out; the glitch
showed up this past week. Opening a new tab from a link works OK in background.
But shoot, one of the beauties of Camino is that it opens new tabs in the
foreground, unlike the unworthy competition.

to Comment 2 - already tried that. Makes me suspect my system (10.2.8). As I'd
mentioned, the Camino app file was fragmented into 62 pieces. But doing fsck
plus Disk Doctor plus Speed Disk had no effect.

Haven't done anything else weird.
Thanks again!
JAD

Comment 4

[Jamie Dillon]

I'd sent a followup note yesterday, but had missed the Commit button below. The
gist was that I hadn't been sitting on my hands. First did every system fix
handy, fsck plus Norton checks. In Speed Disk the Camino app showed up in 62
pieces. All this had no effect. Re-installed the works, incl the profile in the
Library folder.
Still the same malfunction, the worst part of which is the Prefs menus
disappearing, so Camino has to be restarted to put new tabs back in the background.
Cheers, thanks.

Comment 5

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

Can you try a recently nightly and see if the problem re-occurs? It definitely
sounds like a system problem, not something Camino is doing, but I'd like to be
sure of it and testing another version of Camino might help.

Comment 6

[Jamie Dillon]

Just downloaded and installed the latest nightly.
Went thru the whole magilla. Tossed prefs folder, logged out and in again after
install.
Now the tabs work find in the foreground. At the same time, the prefs panes
disappear as soon as I load a new tab, foreground or background. So it appears
these were two separate bugs.
This is better now. Quitting and restarting to get to the prefs isn't a huge
deal. Having tabs work right is a relief.
Looks like the prefs panels washing out really is a Camino problem, though.
Thanks for the help. 

Comment 7

[Jasper]

Something is defently gone funky on your system, I have never ever seen or heard
of such behaviour. What system are you running, are you sure you don't have
hidden prefs in your user.js file (in the profile folder) or any extra pref
panes running.

Comment 8

[Jamie Dillon]

>What system are you running
... 10.2.8. And yes we're updating to 10.4.2 next month, finally.

>are you sure you don't have hidden prefs in your user.js file (in the profile
folder)
... the profile folder doesn't have a user.js file in it. I swear.

>any extra pref panes running.
... nope.

OK, you'll like this. Just ran Camino thru its paces, and for the first time in
some 10 days it's bug free. With the new build from Friday night, first the tabs
worked fine, now the prefs panels open thru the session. Runs like a champ. I'd
made no changes from last night. Apparently shutting down the machine and
restarting today made a difference.
Thanks! I like the changed prefs panels as well, from 0.8.4.
Cheers, Jamie

Comment 9

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

Since the reporter couldn't reproduce any more and it never seemed to be a
problem with Camino (but probably with the system), closing this bug as WORKSFORME.

Comment 10

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

fwiw, i landed a new JEP last week which would account for prefs being fixed.

Comment 11

[Jamie Dillon]

Thanks again. The new build 0.9a2+ is working fine. And yes with payday coming
right up, going to boost the RAM on this machine and install 10.4.2.