352645 - switch text direction menu does not work

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Paleino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2 (Debian-1.99+2.0b2+dfsg-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2 (Debian-1.99+2.0b2+dfsg-1)

When clicking on Edit > Switch Text Direction, it simply does nothing, doesn't change the position of the sidebar (as happened on FF 1.0.6, which I've just removed).
Neither Ctrl+Shift+X works.

A run in console showed nothing (i.e. no error messages, nor warning, nothing), neither did a `firefox -g`.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a page.
2. Click on Edit > Switch Text Direction
Actual Results:  
Nothing, as described in the bug.

Expected Results:  
Changing text direction, that is, for example, moving the sidebar from right to left.

I've installed the Debian experimental package, that brings firefox-1.99+2.0b2+dfsg-1, that is codename "Bon Echo", version 2.0b2.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[David Paleino]

Tested on iceweasel 2.0.0.4-1 from Debian repositories. It actually works for the input fields but the scrollbar on the right doesn't change move on the left, as it should.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Can you check this with an official build from Mozilla? Is the feature present in official builds at all? I see it in Debian Iceweasel, but not on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007070905 Minefield/3.0a7pre or Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4.

Comment 4

[[:Aleksej]]

The feature is enabled with bidi.browser.ui, and is true by default on Debian.

Tested on <http://pastebin.mozilla.org/>:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Debian Iceweasel 2.0.0.4-0etch1.
The vertical scrollbar does move right-left-right when switching.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007070905 Minefield/3.0a7pre
The vertical scrollbar stays on the right - caused by bug 330863.

The horizontal scrolling behaviour is longer to describe, and this bug is not about it.
Resolving WORKSFORME (though it may be a duplicate).

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I just want to emphasise that because of the pref introduced in bug 330863 the position of the vertical scrollbar isn't a good indication of whether the text direction has changed. A better test is whether punctuation at the end of the line is on the left or the right, like this:

LTR:
Hello World!
שלום עולם!

RTL:
Hello World!
שלום עולם!