440309 - Extension menu items missing when all windows closed/minimized

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect, P4)

Description

[David Reitter]

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

When all windows are closed or minimized, the menu items added by Plugins such as Stealther and Update Scanner (in the Tools menu) suddenly vanish.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Menu items should not disappear because the associated functionalities take effect globally.

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I've confirmed this.

It doesn't happen in FF2 (so it's a regression).

It doesn't happen on Windows or Linux -- but it _can't_ happen there,
because on those OSs the application menu is attached to each window,
not (as on OS X) to the Finder.

It's quite likely this isn't a Cocoa widgets bug.  But I'm putting it
there until we find out otherwise.

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Stealther and Update Scanner are extensions, not plugins.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Not wanted for 1.9.0.x, but we should probably pick this up in 1.9.1 since it affects extensions.

Comment 4

[Josh Aas]

I doubt this is our bug - the extensions most likely need to add their menu items to the hidden window menu.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Steven, can you confirm whether this is our bug or not?

Comment 6

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

> Steven, can you confirm whether this is our bug or not?

The short answer is "I don't know".

Before I can know for sure, I'd need to check out Josh's suggestion
(about adding menu items to the hidden window menu).  This would
likely take a while (possibly several days), since I don't currently
know anything about how extensions are supposed to add menu items.

I'll get to this eventually (I've got other bugs with higher
priority).  But I certainly wouldn't mind if someone else beats me to
it :-)

Comment 7

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

This bug still happens.  It's not very important -- at worst mildly annoying.

We should fix it, but I'm not sure when anyone will have time to get to it.  I almost certainly won't.