446491 - xul:panel doesn't work correctly when I use Aero Fox theme

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 452385

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, defect)

Description

[Kazuho Okui]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Some of theme may break xul:panel functionality.

I'm a developer of TwitterFox and my extension is using xul:panel. After I installed Aero Fox theme on Windows platform, Firefox won't start up correctly. When I remove xul:panel element from my code, it works well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install TwitterFox and AeroFox
2. Restart Firefox

Actual Results:  
1. Firefox window displayed but can't change tab, won't open new content, etc...

Expected Results:  
1. Works as usual

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Which version of AeroFox? The full pay version or the crippleware version on AMO? In both cases you'll have to report the issue to the developer. For the latter case, along with other bugs and problems (a severe example is bug 441376), we might have good case for sandboxing the thing. It seems it may be trimmed down past the point of reasonable functionality.

Comment 2

[Kazuho Okui]

Thanks Dave. I'll report to the developer.

Comment 3

[Dave Garrett]

I would still like to know which version it is. It's the free AMO version, I assume?

Comment 4

[Kazuho Okui]

Right, It's the free AMO version.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6070

Comment 5

[Kazuho Okui]

I found that i Fox Smooth 3 also conflicts with TwitterFox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1830

I investigated this thing little while and I found that if I use xul:panel element with "noautohide=false", both extension and themes work fine. (TwitterFox uses noautohide xul:panel).

Also, this conflict happens only on Windows platform, not on Mac. And on the Windows platform, there was a bug of noautohide xul:panel.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390178

On Linux, noautohide attribute still has a problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434372

I'm not sure these bugs are related the conflict. But I couldn't find any problem with my extension and these themes so far...

Comment 6

[Paul Gideon Dann]

The official eBay Companion for Firefox is also severely affected by this issue.  Opening any noautohide=true panel causes the window to stop repainting, although the browser is otherwise functional; it is possible to open new windows for instance.  If the browser window was maximized when the popup appeared, it disappears completely.

The problem is caused by the global.css file, in which window.background is set to moz-dialog.  Although this appears to be the same value as for the default theme, removing this line prevents the issue from occuring.  This seems like a Firefox bug, as it's a pretty serious issue.

Other affecting themes include "Bible Fox" and "Bible Fox Blue".

Comment 7

[Paul Gideon Dann]

Attachment: Proof of Concept XPI

Here is a proof-of-concept XPI that will open a popup after a 3-second delay.

Comment 8

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Closing as wontfix since this is a bug about a specific addon and not addons.mozilla.org.  Feel free to recategorize and/or contact the addon author

Comment 9

[Paul Gideon Dann]

This bug was a duplicate of Bug 452385.

Comment 10

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Thanks!