401064 - SnowFX applet requires a click to display

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

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

Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102404 Minefield/3.0a9pre

I don't yet have a regression range.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Load http://www.v-workshops.com/java/

Expected Results:

Applet loads and displays a message reading "Welcome to V-Workshops", and it has snow falling down.

Actual Results:

"Applet SnowFX started", followed by "Applet running..." status messages appear, but the applet doesn't display until you click on its area.  Most times, even when the applet does display, it takes a reload to get the snow to begin falling, too.

Comment 1

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

Attachment: Sample of this state

Not sure if this is helpful, but here's a sample of Minefield in this state, culled from Activity Monitor

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

This bug doesn't happen on the 1.8 branch.

And I've found the regression range for it on the trunk:  The
2007-08-06-04-trunk nightly doesn't have this bug, but the
2007-08-07-04-trunk nightly does have it.

I think the most likely culprit is the patch for bug 390385:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2007-08-06+17%3A32%3A00&maxdate=2007-08-06+17%3A32%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Comment 3

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Biesi: Wanna look at this?

Steven: Any help you could provide would be appreciated

Comment 4

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I definitely plan to work on this, from both sides (JEP and
browser-trunk).  But since I now generally only do JEP-related work on
the weekends, it may be a while before I can get to it.

I think it's right to block the 1.9 release for this, but I don't get
the impression it's drop-dead urgent.

Comment 5

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Awesome, thanks for your help Steven! Let us know if you need additional help.

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Is it all Java applets, or just this one?

Comment 7

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

(In reply to comment #6)
> Is it all Java applets, or just this one?

I've tested a fair amount of Java applets on Mac trunk, and haven't yet seen this particular bug.

Comment 8

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Since we've only seen this with one applet we're not giving this a high priority. However, if people start complaining about java being broken due to this bug we probably should up the priority.

Comment 9

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

Seems to be more than just this particular applet; see http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/ for another page that doesn't display on-screen--although it does appear to successfully initialize--until you explicitly click in its area.

Comment 10

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Upping to P3 for now

Comment 11

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

Incidentally, both URLs in comment 0 and comment 9 initialize just fine for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008043004 Minefield/3.0pre.

jst: a guess at which bug(s) fixed this?

Comment 12

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Is there any way we could turn this into a mochitest or reftest? That would be rockin'

Comment 13

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

The JEP is long gone, and this problem seems to have been fixed.