308046 - bookmarks dropdown doesn't respect screen size

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[grv575]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Clicking on bookmarks from the B_ookmarks menu works unexpectedly if there are
more than a screenfull of bookmarks.  The up/down arrow that scroll through the
displayed bookmarks are below/above the screen in some cases.  This happens to
me on a tabletpc in landscape mode (note that these rotate and so sometimes the
resolution might be given as 1024x768 [landscape] or 768x1024 [portrait]).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add lots of bookmarks (more than 1 screenfull)
2. Click on bookmarks menu
3. Point to From Internet Explorer (more than 1 screenfull of bookmarks in this
submenu)

Actual Results:  
No down arrow at bottom of displayed popup menu in order to scroll through 2nd
screen of bookmarks.

Expected Results:  
Respect the screen dimensions correctly, and put the down scrolling arrow within
vertical screen dimensions.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

WFM with Firefox 1.5b1 (no tablet PC).

Comment 2

[grv575]

Well all I can say is hooray beer.  IE works as expected, Firefox 1.0 works as 
expected, Firefox 1.5b1 does not (on my system -- motion computing tablet pc, 
windows xp pro tablet pc edition).

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Are any other menus (context menu toward the bottom of the screen, where it
should pop upward instead of downward) getting confused about how much room they
have? (I wonder if Mozilla.org|com even owns a tablet to test on...)

Comment 4

[grv575]

Ah...that too.  If I right-click near the bottom of the screen, bringing up 
the context popup menu, then it gets cut off.  I can get it to only show Back, 
Forward, Reload, and the rest are cut off.  

Comment 5

[grv575]

OK isolated it.  If I change my tablet settings to have menus open on the 
right (windows xp default) then this bug does not happen.  Arrows are ok, and 
right-click menus open upwards as expected.

I had it set to have menus open on the left (useful for tablets since your 
hand is on the right) and firefox didn't deal with this well.  Note that the 
previous firefox did _not_ have this glitch (around 1.0) and neither did IE of 
course.

Now the odd thing is that if I toggle the menu location setting in my tablet 
and pen settings properties then I can no longer reproduce the bug.  It's like 
the code now sees a change in settings and reponds correctly... So I 
definately think something is amiss but it may be more difficult to reproduce 
than I thought.

Anyway, I'd like to keep the bug open if anyone is able to confirm it or have 
a look at it more in depth, but also report that there is an easy workaround - 
toggle the tablet & pen settings menu location radio button choices, then 
reload firefox.

Screenshot of menu configuration settings on win xp tablet pc edition:
http://www.geocities.com/grv575/firefox15b.jpg

Comment 6

[Parkhideh]

(In reply to comment #5)
> OK isolated it.  If I change my tablet settings to have menus open on the 
> right (windows xp default) then this bug does not happen.  Arrows are ok, and 
> right-click menus open upwards as expected.
> 

OS: Win 2000; Firefox 3 Beta 2
I confirm that drop down bookmarks from the tool bar work correctly when each layer is displayed on the right of the previous one.  BUT if there is no room on the right, the the next layer is displayed on the left side of the currently pointed item AND as mouse is moved there (move to left), the selection disappears.
To create the problem move the Firefox window to the right of the screen so that there is no room to display the second layer items of the drop down list.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still see this problem?

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I don't see this, unless I miss the menu with the mouse.
=> WFM
but if you see differently with FF 3.1, please comment

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081125 Firefox/3.1b2