309572 - [Mac] "Window" menu doesn't show windows created by Java

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[David Poole]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

The "Window" menu on the topmost toolbar does not include windows created by
Java (including the Java Console). This means that windows created by applets
can easily get lost if they fall behind a window. This is particularly bad if
there is a popup window awaiting input and the applet freezes.

There are a nubmer of such applets at: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/lci/CIspace/
that all create windows.

Note that this is not a problem in MS-Windows as there is no such menu item as
the OS gives an index to open windows.

Thanks! 
David

p.s. these applets run in 1.5 beta 1, when they didn't run in 1.0.6 on my mac
(but do in Windows and Linux).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run an applet that creates a window
2.
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Expected Results:  
The window created by the applet should appear in the Window menu

Comment 1

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

I can repro this in both fx2003 and GPa3 using an applet like http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/lci/CIspace/Version3/tree/index.html (none the the v4 applets seem to do anything AFAICT).

In fact, starting the applet seems to remove the menu separator from between "Zoom" and any existing windows (until you create a new window) :p

This works fine in Camino, so it's not a JEP bug.

Comment 2

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

The Window menu is all XP code, as far as I know. From what I know, it's iterating over a list of XUL windows. Perhaps that enumerator doesn't know about windows created by Java?

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We're trying to kill java, we're not going to invest in making its windows appear in our window menu :)