439018 - At times, can't activate inactive window by selecting Window menu item

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Doug Grinbergs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

When in the bug state, selecting a window does not make it active. 
Don't know how to get in that state.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
no steps
Actual Results:  
Selecting a window does not make it active

Expected Results:  
Selected window becomes active

Having been seeing this on and off in 2.x for some time, now in 3.x. (:-( 

2.0.0.3, 10.4.9 8P2137, iMac Core Duo/1.83G
2.0.0.4, 10.4.10 8R2218, iMac Core Duo/1.83G
2.0.0.14, 10.5.3 9D34, iMac Core Duo/1.83G

3.0rc3, 10.5.3 9D34, iMac Core Duo/1.83G


Closest bug I could find was bug 429027, but it involves the update window.

Comment 1

[Doug Grinbergs]

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Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.