503503 - Bookmarks on toolbar now hidden have to access with >>

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 447571

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[keith Worden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5

To maximize my screen space, on my menu bar I have (in this order) the menu, the bookmark items (one item), the navigation arrow buttons (forward/back) and the location input field. In Firefox 3.0 the my bookmark item button (immediately to the right of the menu Help item) always appeared. In Firefox 3.5 it never appears - instead I get the >> symbol to drop a menu to then see it. If I customize the toolbars and just ok the dialog my bookmark button appears and I don't get the drop >> symbol. If I resize the window and then maximize it the button disappears and >> appears again. The point of putting it there was so I could access one website with one click; now it takes two.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have one item only on the bookmarks toolbar.
2. Customize toolbars.
3. Drag "bookmarks toolbar items" from the bookmark toolbar to right of the Help menu item.
4. End customize - bookmarked item appears ok.
5. Resize the Firefox window - bookmarked item replaced by >> drop menu.
6. Customize and ok with no changes.
7. Bookmarked item appears again and >> drop menu disappears.



Tested using the default theme.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This sounds like bug 447571. What's puzzling is that you see a difference between 3.0 and 3.5 - bug 447571 has existed for a while. Are you using a different theme or something?

Comment 2

[Brian Polidoro]

The problem was different in 3.0.  In 3.0 you would only see the problem if you resized/shrunk the window small enough.  Whereas in 3.5 it happens more often including at startup.  
I noted that in Bug 447571 comment #3.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Gavin, iirc bug 447571 exists only on 3.5 and trunk, not in 3.0 (or  at least not so problematic if it exists at all), afaik

Comment 4

[keith Worden]

Yes it does sound like 447571, but I never had the problem in 3.0 (used all versions up to 3.0.11), was an immediate and obvious difference in 3.5.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Gavin, iirc bug 447571 exists only on 3.5 and trunk, not in 3.0 (or  at least
> not so problematic if it exists at all), afaik

Hmm, thought it affected 3.0 as well, but I guess I was wrong!