379882 - Viewport shakes vertically when the personal toolbar has no bookmarks button nor any folders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Michael Hannon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1

The viewport (including the right-hand scroll bar and the content area of the sidebar, if present) in Seamonkey will shake if the personal toolbar contains only links.

Once seamonkey arrives at a state where there are no folders in the personal toolbar, the viewport will shake until a new page is loaded. If seamonkey is launched in that state, the same is true: the viewport will shake until a new page is loaded.

The behavior stops if either
- The bookmarks button is turned on, or
- A folder is added to the personal toolbar, or
- A new page is loaded (either by following a link or by entering a new address in the address bar)

The window will also shake if either 'New Folder' or 'Edit' is highlighted in the context menu for a folder in the personal toolbar. Both of those menu items add a border to the folder when moused over.

Minimizing / Maximizing the window has no apparent effect on the behavior.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page in Seamonkey
2. Turn off the Bookmarks button (under Edit > Preferences > Navigator)
3. Move all folders out of your personal toolbar
Actual Results:  
The window shakes vertically by a few pixels until you load a new page or put at least one folder in the personal toolbar.

Expected Results:  
The window does not shake

I suspect the cause is very similar to the cause for <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247116">Bug 247116</a> (that ticket also has an attached video showing the same kind of shaking I am seeing). Apologies if I should have added to that ticket rather than create a new one.

Comment 1

[Michael Hannon]

I should add: I just tested it, and this problem doesn't occur in Seamonkey 1.5a.

Also, the version of Windows I'm using is Vista Business, 32-bit.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Bug 247116 will be fixed in rv:1.8.1.4 (that is Firefox 2.0.0.4).
You're using an older version rv:1.8.1.2

That said, it doesn't look like the branch patch in bug 247116 fixed
the XPFE version of bookmarksMenu.js so I guess SeaMonkey would still
have this problem when it reaches rv:1.8.1.4

Dave, Gavin, could you have a look?

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

From the looks of things the fix I applied to Firefox was already applied to Seamonkey way back in 2003 in bug 221503.

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I see this in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070605 Minefield/3.0a6pre

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?
(or Firefox v3.0pre ?)

Comment 6

[Michael Hannon]

I no longer have access to a Vista machine - perhaps someone else could check the versions Serge Gautherie mentioned?

Comment 7

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Cannot reproduce with a current SM 2.1 trunk nightly build on Win7 (moved the Most Visited virtual folder and any other bookmark folders out of the PT and removed the Bookmarks button using Customize Toolbar). Given comment 1, marking WFM. Please reopen only if you can reproduce this bug with a current SM 2.1 trunk nightly build or SM 2.1b1 or later.