398921 - modal "open dialog" (browse) breaks toolbar UI and other stuff

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257121

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

1. open this URL in Firefox (version 2.0.0.7):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ownwork

2. Scroll down just a tad to find the BROWSE button (where you select an image to upload)

3. Press it (now a model "open dialog" appears). Model in this context means that the current browser window can't be used until the "open dialog" is either completed or canceled (for instance, you can open the File/Edit/View menus while the "open dialog" is open. this "modal" behavior is perfectly normal.

4. Now, launch Firefox again (I do this by clicking the icon in my windows "quicklaunch" toolbar next to the start menu). The problem also repros for me when I use START::RUN to launch "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

5. A new Firefox window appears, it's kind of working as normal expect some small details. For instance the toolbar that sits right now under "back", "forwards" etc will be empty. If you right click the empty toolbar area a small 2x2 mm gray box appears instead of a proper context menu.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[martin]

Attachment: firefox showing quick launch icon and what I call the "bookmark toolbar"

Comment 2

[martin]

Attachment: firefox showing the browse button and the modal "open dialog"

Comment 3

[martin]

Attachment: firefox showing the bug itself: a broken bookmark toolbar and a broken context menu

Comment 4

[martin]

I see this behavior on Win2K and I suspect it will repro on WinXP and Vista too. I did however try it on Ubuntu Gutsy BETA1 and on that platform all behavior is correct (bug does NOT repro on Linux).