541757 - [Mac only?] Spry Drop down menus used to look OK in FF 3.5, extra line/ space appears in 3.6

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[CHRIS MUZILLA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

I just installed FF3.6 and now there is an extra bit of transparent "space" or padding on the right side of the drop down menus. The drop down menus were created with DreamWeaver CS4 Spry. 

The drop down menu links inherit their width from the parent and in FF 3.5 the right line was perfectly aligned with the top level navigation.    I know this is caused by FF 3.6 as it only began to appear in this version and is the same as when I did the browser compatibility testing in IE, older versions of FF, Safari and Chrome.

I'm not a very skilled developer (just a basic web designer) so I hope that this notice/ bug can help you improve the browser we all love so much!

Please email me if you need further clarifications! 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  go to: www.bdg1.com
2.  hover over the "About BDG" navigation link
3. View the line on the right side of the drop down menu and notice there is transparent space between the nav link and the right line.  This did not appear before.
4. Compare to how this looks in FF 3.5, Safari or IE.

Comment 1

[CHRIS MUZILLA]

I hope this helps- also, I'd love to know when/ if this issue gets addressed... or if there is a different way I can code my CSS to work with this newest version of the browser.

I really appreciate your time! You guys rock!

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

Works for me - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

drop down menus align with the grey box at the top of the menu.

Comment 3

[CHRIS MUZILLA]

It works OK on every platform and version except on MAC OS 10.5.8 FF version 3.6

I attached a link to a zoomed in screen shot:   http://chrismuzilla.com/ff_error/bdg_error.png

Hope this helps identify the issue.

thanks!

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Can you please create a new testing profile and try there for us?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 5

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

I can confirm the issue with the latest mac trunk build (Leopard). The menu looks ok on 1.9.1. Something have obviously changed, from a quick glance in the site's js file it looks like they're not doing an explicit version sniffing (they do look for gecko, though), but I could be wrong. Bumping this to layout for now.

Comment 6

[CHRIS MUZILLA]

Has anything happened with this issue yet?

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Did you test in a new profile?

Comment 8

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> It works OK on every platform and version except on MAC OS 10.5.8 FF version
> 3.6

Which platforms are OK?  Are you saying it's ok on other versions of Mac OS X, but not on 10.5.8, or that it's ok on Windows and Linux but broken on Mac?

Comment 9

[CHRIS MUZILLA]

I have not created a test profile- I'm not aware of how to do that and I do not know enough about developing FF to diagnose the issue.... I just wanted to bring this display issue to the community.  I provided the screen shot for reference... if you have any other questions..  please let me know and I will help to the best of my abilities.

thanks,

Comment 10

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

In comment 4 I give a link that explains new profiles very clearly.

Comment 11

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Given comment 5, there's no need for creating test profiles, so please ignore comment 7.

However, could you answer comment 8?

Comment 12

[Kevin Brosnan]

Looks correct on

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100204 Minefield/3.7a1pre

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100205 Minefield/3.7a1pre

Assuming the menus that are at issue are; About BDG, Portfolio and Available Listings. I don't have access to a Mac.

Comment 13

[CHRIS MUZILLA]

In response to Comment 12:

 I'd like to say that the menus were never an issue before... The site functioned perfectly on FF3.5 and below on MAC 10.5.8 but once I upgraded to FF 3.6 (with no modifications to the site's code) the 1px transparent space appeared as in the screen shot from Comment 3.

The menu did and still continues to work as it should across WinXP, Vista & 7... in IE6+ and FF3.6.

The only browser/ OS combination I see this issue in is:

FF 3.6 on MAC 10.5.8.

Hope this helps- if it is an issue with the site's code, I'd love to know for sure. Thanks!