389344 - Context menus often immediately dismiss in Bookmark Manager and Sidebar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 389542

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

If a bookmark is selected with a right-click on the bookmark, it quite often gets into a state where the context menu will flash into view and then immediately dismiss itself. I've seen this reliably happen on the Mac using the 7/23 trunk build.

Steps to Reproduce
1. Open the Bookmark Manager or Bookmark sidebar.
2. Right-click on a bookmark in the Bookmark Manager a few times

Result: The first time, the context menu will pop up and stay open until dismissed by a left click on it or elsewhere. Subsequently, it often fails to stay, simply flashing into view. Try it five or ten times.

Comment 1

[Wayne Woods]

Fixed by bug 388995 check-in, as was bug 389542, which is a dupe issue.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv