381448 - Can't use OS menus (e.g. clock) while Firefox/Camino/etc. has focus

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070521 Minefield/3.0a5pre

Steps to reproduce:
1. While Firefox has focus, click the clock menu (top of screen, near the right).

Result: The menu appears for a few milliseconds and then disappears.

Expected: The menu should stay up until I dismiss it or use an item in it.

I use the clock menu whenever I want to know the current date, so this bug is pretty annoying.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Seems to work some times but not others. I can click 5 times in a row and maybe once it will open properly.

Comment 2

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

Is the regression range on this recent? It might be because of our EventMonitor stuff in bug 265136, but that's a very recent change.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I couldn't see the issue in a nightly from 20th.

Comment 4

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

Sorry the bug this is probably a regression from is bug 339945. The old # was the attachment id.

Comment 5

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

I can reproduce this in a test app. I will file a radar report.

Comment 6

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

Filed as radar# 5220226

Comment 7

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

Mark, I tried what you suggested using the Carbon Activate/Deactivate events to only have the handler installed while we are inactive, and it helped the problem some but didn't fix it entirely.

This whole thing doesn't make a whole lot of sense, you'd think someone else would have found this bug already :(

Comment 8

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

I see this in Camino also, FWIW.

Comment 9

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

The browser window doesn't properly regain focus when the (status item) menus are dismissed normally, either, at least in Camino's case.

Comment 12

[Justin Alan Ryan]

I markedly do not see this in any version of Camino I've used - are we talking about nightlies?  I recently switched from Camino to Minefield as my general purpose browser, so for me, this is new functionality that's never occurred in some years of Camino use.

Comment 13

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

Yes, we are talking about nightlies. Minefield is simply the name for the Firefox trunk (nightlies), IIRC.

Comment 14

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This actually works correctly (or, almost completely correctly), on 10.3.9, with the exception that a second click on a menu title/icon (to close a dropped menu) opens it again.

Comment 16

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Fixed by patch for bug 387164, which just landed on trunk.

Comment 17

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

This fixes Camino for me, so marking Verified.