368596 - Pop-up dialog does not appear (regression)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[walter sheets]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070128 Minefield/3.0a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070128 Minefield/3.0a2pre

Regression from prior bugfix.  For a complete description:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317375#c151

I've confirmed that this bug affects linux-trunk but not
Windows-trunk and not linux-release-2.0.0.1.

Feel free to give this bug a better name!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

The relevant comments from bug 317375:

walter sheets   2007-01-29 11:10:18 PST

(In reply to comment #123)
> With the approval of dbaron and mrbkap, I landed this.
> Let's see how it goes.

Sorry, I just found a regression a year later which is still in trunk (but not
in 2.0.0.1 release):

http://finance.yahoo.com and click on the small chart of the
NASDAQ average to enlarge it.

Immediately above the enlarged chart there will be a banner
"Try our new charts now in beta".  Click on that (requires
Flash plugin).  The problem begins when you enter a non-
existent stock symbol (try 'xyz') in the upper left corner
where you see 'Enter symbols' and click on 'Get Chart'.

After a few seconds you should see a pop-up saying No Data
Available.  You need to dismiss that pop-up before the
window will function properly (a stupid design decision).

On trunk, that pop-up never appears because the response
(apparently) never returns from Yahoo.  No idea why.


Comment #154 walter sheets  2007-01-29 11:26:33 PST

I just spent several hours narrowing it down to this range:
#mk_add_options MOZ_CO_DATE="25 Jan 2006 19:00"
#mk_add_options MOZ_CO_DATE="25 Jan 2006 18:00"

I have not actually tried backing out individual commits 
because there are too many of them.  I'd be happy to start
trying that if someone can give me a likely suspect out of
all of those to choose from.

This is linux, BTW.  I've not tried Windows trunk.

Comment 2

[-fullmetaljacket-]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> This is linux, BTW.  I've not tried Windows trunk.
> 

i tried it on windows and its WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070128 Minefield/3.0a2pre ID:2007012821 [cairo]

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Assuming those times are CVS server timezone (I'm not quite sure how CVS and timezones interact, so I'm not sure this is a good assumption), the only checkin in that range is bug 317375.  So there's nothing really to try backing out -- that's all a single change, more or less.

roc, can you reproduce this on Linux?

Comment 4

[walter sheets]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Assuming those times are CVS server timezone (I'm not quite sure how CVS and timezones interact, 
so I'm not sure this is a good assumption), 

If no timezone is specified in .mozconfig, then the times
exactly match the the commit-times listed by Bonzai.
(I know this from long experience :o)

> the only checkin in that range is bug 317375. 

Exactly.  That's why I didn't attempt any backouts.

Comment 5

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Yahoo doesn't seem to like the version of Flash I have on this machine (7.0). Walter, what version of Flash do you have?

Comment 6

[walter sheets]

It's been a long wait, but adobe finally released Flash9
for linux:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW

Comment 7

[walter sheets]

Sorry, the URL above seems to be serving Flash 7 today.  Try
this one instead, which just now worked for me:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz

Comment 8

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Works for me on Mac.

Comment 9

[walter sheets]

I'm too cheap to buy a Mac ;o)  I just tried on today's trunk
and the bug is still there, but 2.0.0.3 release works fine.
(On linux, I mean.)

Comment 10

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Matthew might be able to help.

Comment 11

[walter sheets]

Hm.  Well, I just tried the Yahoo finance site that started all of this,
and it works now.  OTOH the site seems to have been considerably revised,
so I have no idea if the original problem is still there or not.  I have
no way to test for the bug now.

Comment 12

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Alright, our chances of fixing this have declined to zero. Thanks anyway.