498176 - If you unhide the menubar clicking a link in content fails to open the url, it merely rehides the menubar

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Toolbars and Toolbar Customization, defect)

Description

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

If you unhide the manubar using the ALT key, then do not rehide it, you cannot open a link by left clicking in the content area.  Doing so fails to follow the link and open the URL, it merely dismisses the menubar.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

IE completely disables content area clicks if they dismiss the menu bar, regardless of auto-hiding. It also doesn't change the cursor on links in this case. This might have to be fixed at a lower level.

Comment 2

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I see what you mean here.  I am not sure that the behavior is intuitive; I am positive I don't like it; but it is the same as what IE does.

The one thing I found that is different is that Firefox is now dismissing the menubar if you click on an unused area of the menubar, IE does not do that.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> IE completely disables content area clicks if they dismiss the menu bar,
> regardless of auto-hiding. It also doesn't change the cursor on links in this
> case. This might have to be fixed at a lower level.

Safari behaves like us and doesn't follow IE. I suppose that's unintentional.

Comment 4

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

This is less of a polish bug, and more of an actual bug bug.

Comment 5

[Laurie Birch]

thanks