324334 - Cannot switch to Error Console in the "Window" menu

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Error Console, defect)

Description

[Håkan Waara]

Reproduced on Mac OS X, build 20060122.

If you open the javascript console, and then focus another window, you can't get back to the console by going to the Window menu and choosing "Javascript console".

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the JS console
2. Click on your main browser window
3. Go to the Window menu and choose "Javascript console".

Result:

Nothing happens

Expected result:

The console should be brought to the front.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

confirmed on Mac OS X 10.2.8
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060121 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Note that selecting another window works, even when the Javascript console is on the front (related: bug 237584). It's only selecting the console in the menu to jump to it, that doesn't work.

Comment 2

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

Any JS console errors with the showInConsole pref set?

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Any JS console errors with the showInConsole pref set?
> 

No, nothing.

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I also see this with the latest branch build under Mac OS 10.3 . The Error Console (its new name) doesn't show up and is not ticked in the Window menu, as expected.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060913 BonEcho/2.0b2 ID:2006091303

Anybody see this with Mac OS 10.4 ?

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I also see this with the latest branch build under Mac OS 10.3 . The Error
> Console (its new name) doesn't show up and is not ticked in the Window menu, as
> expected.
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1b2)
> Gecko/20060913 BonEcho/2.0b2 ID:2006091303
> 
> Anybody see this with Mac OS 10.4 ?

I was running 10.4 when filing this bug.

Comment 6

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

This bug is still hanging around using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0.

Comment 7

[Michel Lusthof]

Indeed. Bug still present using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; nl; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0.

Comment 8

[Nick Fagerlund]

This bug affects both the error console and the Software Update window -- neither can be focused using the Window menu. Other non-browser windows seem to be unaffected -- the Page Info, Source, Add-ons, Downloads, and Places windows may all be switched to via the Window menu as per normal. 

Interestingly, you CAN switch to the affected windows by right-clicking (/ctrl-clicking/click-and-holding) on the Firefox dock icon and selecting from THAT list of windows. So this bug ONLY affects the menu bar. (Also, try entering chrome://browser/content/browser.xul in the location bar to load a window-within-a-window -- the window menu in the faux-menubar here is likewise unable to switch to the Software Update and Error Console windows.) 

Can someone please change the summary to reflect the current understanding of the bug? 

(Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008051504 Minefield/3.0pre)

Comment 9

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

This bug seems fixed on the trunk (I was experiencing it a few weeks ago). Another bug fix may have fixed it. Time to set it to Resolved Fixed?

Comment 10

[Philip Chee]

Closing as INCOMPLETE. Please reopen if you can reproduce on trunk.