335926 - Preferences and other dialogs do not display after menu selection

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060428 BonEcho/2.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060429 BonEcho/2.0a1 ID:2006042902

Preferences and other dialogs do not show up after selecting the menu item.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox
2. Select Preferences... command in Bon Echo menu in menu bar


Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Preferences dialog shows up

This build of Firefox uses near 100% of CPU all the time. Might be busy looping somewhere so no time handling dialogs. See bug #335925

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

confirmed by other mac user on forum
regression seems between 20060428 and 20060429 nightlies

Comment 2

[John Johnston]

Bug number 335925 and this bug are definitely related. When Bon Echo is in the 100% cpu state, none of the pref, theme, extension windows open. Blank lines show up under the Window menu but you are unable to switch to that window. After I run the sequence from <a href=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335925#c4>bug 335925</a>, the cpu % goes down to less than 3% and I can see prefs, themes, etc.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

The situation is improved after the workaround in bug 335925 comment 4, but the dialogs are still very slow to appear.

Comment 4

[John Johnston]

This bug is WFM now that bug 335925 has been fixed.

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

resolving