613135 - gmail select all checkbox and select items drop down do not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 612861

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Reece H. Dunn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101117 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101117 Firefox/4.0b8pre

In GMail, there is a checkbox that allows the user to select/deselect all items. With the recent build this does nothing. It also has a menu to select specific items (Starred, Unread, etc.); with the recent build this does not show the menu item.

This even happens when I refresh the page content.

There are no javascript errors on the web or error console. Refreshing the page causes hundreds of errors about unrecognised CSS styles which I'll raise as a separate bug as these were not erroring on earlier versions of Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Reece H. Dunn]

Actually, on refreshing the gmail page I am getting the following error a lot:

   Error: this.hudWeakReferences[aHUDId].get() is null
   Source File: resource:///modules/HUDService.jsm
   Line: 2629

Not sure if this is related to the issue I am seeing with GMail, but it might be relevant.

Comment 2

[Reece H. Dunn]

The CSS errors appear to be related to support for other browsers, so I am not going to raise an issue for the CSS errors.

Comment 3

[Cork]

Regression range:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=3d846420a907&tochange=898ef162e026

Comment 4

[Cork]

Suspecting bug 587734

Comment 5

[David Vo [:auscompgeek]]

I can't reproduce this on Windows, must be restricted to Linux?

Comment 6

[Reece H. Dunn]

After a while (a few minutes), this started working again, but closing gmail and re-opening the page reproduced the issue.

I have seen this behaviour several times ... curious.

auscompgeek: did you try the button immediately after loading gmail and switching to the All Mail view? Also, are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows as that may be a factor.

Comment 7

[Reece H. Dunn]

Also, I am getting:

   Error: Permission denied to access property 'firebug'
   Source File: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=js&name=main,tlist&...
   Line: 1599

followed by the HUD error.

That page contains a lot of javascript code in an iframe separate to the main page content (presumably to avoid sending the javascript code all the time). That line with the error contains the code fragment:

   a=Boolean(window.console&&window.console.firebug);

which looks like the lazy window console work.

In addition, this is looking more likely, since the next time that code gets executed (presumably during an update) it starts working (presumably because a is set and is now true).

Comment 8

[David Dahl :ddahl]

Update your minefield, we most likely fixed this yesterday in bug 612861

Comment 9

[David Dahl :ddahl]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I can't reproduce this on Windows, must be restricted to Linux?

99% of our dev tools are written in JS, so fundamental issues like this will be evident on all platforms. Perhaps you did not have the same build running on both systems?