318623 - Previously visited sites listed under the Go menu do not open in current window or new tab when selected/clicked

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Edward Haigh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Whatever site is open in the browser remains unchanged when pulling down the Go menu and selecting any previously-visited site listed there. The window just sits there as though no selection has been made. Moreover, holding down the command key and selecting a site from the Go menu does not open a new tab - it also does nothing. Same with the control key where I navigate to "open in new tab" using the contextual menu. Simply, in all these scenarios, nothing happens. Opening the History pane and clicking links in that continues to work perfectly. This behavior was noted before and after restarting Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open browser, allow home page to load.
2. Pull down Go menu and select any site.
3. Watch nothing happen.

Actual Results:  
As indicated above.

Expected Results:  
Site/link selected from the Go menu should replace topmost tab/url, or, using either the command key or the control key, should open the selection in a new tab.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051130 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005113003
Works for me. Maybe an extension is causing this?

Comment 2

[Edward Haigh]

Reboot does not cure this bug. New Firefox 1.5 install on another system (G3 Powerbook) before and after upgrade to 10.4.3 did NOT exhibit this behavior.

Comment 3

[Edward Haigh]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051130
> Firefox/1.5 ID:2005113003
> Works for me. Maybe an extension is causing this?
> 
No optional Firefox extensions are installed. OS system prefs have the following haxies installed: Application Enhancer, FruitMenu, LabelsX, More Internet, and WindowShade X

Anyone have experience with any of those creating a problem for Firefox? (pre 1.5 'Fox worked correctly on the system.)

Comment 4

[Edward Haigh]

Disabling APE doesn't cure the problem.
Reinstalling Firefox 1.5 doesn't solve the problem.
Very vexing.

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

And creating a new profile?

Comment 6

[Edward Haigh]

Point taken, thanks. Logging in in Root, the behavior disappears. I'm thinking perhaps it is the rather massive number of bookmarks I have stored. They broke IE years ago, and they made early Safari releases really slow in pulling them down via the menu. Never a problem with FireFox or Camino/Chimera before this, though. I'm sure now I can solve the problem, but I'd sure love to know what exactly is causing it and why. 

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Edward, are you still able to reproduce this issue with Firefox 3.5.1?

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCO. Please reopen if you are seeing this in Firefox 3.5.2 or later in Firefox safe mode and a new profile with the latest plugins.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles