316562 - Firefox Preferences missing if Help opened.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

1. Start Firefox (1.5 or trunk)
2. Open Help
3. Open Firefox menu

Expected: See Preferences menu item
Actual:   Preferences menu item is missing

1. Start Firefox (1.5 or trunk)
2. Open Firefox menu
3. Close Firefox menu
4. Open Help
5. Open Firefox menu.

Expected: See Preferences menu item
Actual:   See Preferences menu item

It appears that having the Help window open interferes with the initialization of the Firefox menu.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, do you mean bug 221813 (menu is not functional) or is the preference-item really missing ? I'm not seeing that in Firefox 1.5

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Reporter, do you mean bug 221813 (menu is not functional)

No

> or is the preference-item really missing ?

Yes.

Comment 3

[Tom Verhoeff]

As I understand this report, it also (still) applies to FireFox 2.0.

It appears that opening Help>FireFox Help prevents a number of other facilities in FireFox to be used, including Preferences.

This is annoying.  E.g. you may want to consult the help while setting Preferences.  This is currently not possible (on Mac OS X).

Comment 4

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

Tested with FF 23 Nightly on OSX 10.8