Closed Bug 62525 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Three-deep bookmarks appear off-screen

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(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 98
defect

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VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: piskozub, Assigned: bugs)

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A complicated three deep bookmarkstructure, when viewed from the "Bookmarks"
menu shows the third layer deep completely off Mozilla window. The third
bookmark panel is the one that would not fit completely in the window if placed
side-by-side thith the first two. If viewed full-screen this means the third
layer is completely invisible. I see this on every nightly release I try for at
least a week. A screenshot may be viewed at
http://water.iopan.gda.pl/~piskozub/3-deep-bookmarks.jpg

Last seen on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001210, the
installer version.
worksforme, 2000121120 build

But then I don't have extremely long bookmarks like that. I'd try a couple of
things. First, try deleting your profile and mozreg (you'll most likely want to
make a backup copy, wouldn't want to lose such an impressive bookmarks list),
and see if that helps (make a 4 or 5 deep quick bookmarks list to test. If that
doesn't help, try it on the latest build, just to be sure.

I created a new profile with the newest Win32 installer build -
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001212
I created a new bookmark file bookmarking a lot of www.mozilla.org pages and
copying the bookmarks (with bookmark manager) to a folder with subfolders. I am
now able to recreate my original problem. The length of bookmark description is
unimportant. The critical factor is making both the first (root) and second
level folders too long too be viewable. When both become scrollable, all third
level folders (even with one short entry) appear off-screen. The same when the
Mozilla window covers almost all screen. Surprisingly, making the Mozilla window
small repairs the third level bookmark funcionality (it appears on top of the
first level folder). I used Win98 SE with 800x600 High Color sreen resolution.

My test bookmark file is available here:
http://water.iopan.gda.pl/~piskozub/bookmarks.html
It is only 20kB and contains not so many (~80) bookmarks. I believe many people
could hit this problem sooner or later.
OK, I can see this bug now. Playing with it, I can make a similar thing happen
at the second level. Just make your window really small, and down near the
bottom of the screen, so that the first level of the menu gets dran above the
mozilla window, then choose a submenu, I gets drawn off to the side of the
mozilla window. THe bottom half of the menu gets drawn off the bottom edge of
the screen as well. The third level of the menu is then dawn correctly.
marking confirmed based on comments. changing components to Xpmenus
Assignee: ben → pinkerton
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Bookmarks → XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: claudius → jrgm
The last comment, about moving the browser close to the bottom of the screen
and getting menus in the wrong position is bug 61662. This bug is most likely
another variation of that one (but pink could say for sure).

Just to reiterate the key step to reproduce (from above).
  "The critical factor is making both the first (root) and second
   level folders too long too be viewable. When both become scrollable, 
   all thirdlevel folders (even with one short entry) appear off-screen."
was this a regression that happened a week or two ago? benG did some code for
scrolling menus about two weeks ago. I blame him.
Assignee: pinkerton → ben
No. It was me who stated that is is a recent regression. However, I checked a n 
early November build I had with the same bookmark file. Yes, the bug was with 
us at least one month ago.
Downgrading to normal; not many people will hit this.

Gerv
Severity: critical → normal
*** Bug 68859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug also seen under Mozilla 0.3.1 on a Linux box.
Argh. Mozilla 0.8.1 on a Linux box.  Incidentally, it's not THAT difficult to
end up with a 3-deep structure if you import bookmarks from another machine...
*** Bug 82861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Another observation about this bug: 

Using a dual display system (2 graphic cards + 2 monitors) on WindowsME I am
able to access the third layer of bookmarks *on the other monitor* by moving the
mouse around the two other tiers (as it is on the wrong side of the second tier). 

Not that it hepls most users - I do not dare putting forward buying a second
monitor as a workaround for this bug.

A working workaround is using the side-panel bookmarks.
Seemed someone fixed this! It works OK with 200106007 Win32 build. Marking
WORKSFORME

Thanks!
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Yes, I think this was bug 78409, beyotch!
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → XUL
QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.widgets
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