340965 - [Mac] When Help window is open, menus don't work and browser can't get focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221813

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Dorner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060328 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060328 Firefox/1.5.0.2

When the Firefox Help window is open, the menus are disabled, but don't appear as disabled and the browser window cannot receive focus.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Help -> Firefox Help
2a. Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks (or any other menu choice)
OR
2b. Click on a bookmark on the bookmarks toolbar 
OR
2c. Enter text in an online form
OR
2d. Enter text into the location panel



Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Dialog window to open, Menu action to occur, text to appear in location panel or in online form.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Yep, it blows. You can at least turn it into just an annoyance, by the totally undiscoverable route of right clicking in the main content pane, where you can uncheck "Always on Top" to at least let you refocus a working window without having to close the help viewer.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221813 ***