626421 - Non-clickable area on top of each tab in Windows XP (tabs in titlebar)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[pumay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9

Non-clickable area on top of each tab

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure you have browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar option set to true, tabs on top,
and your browser window is maximized.
2. Open some tabs.
3. Keep your mouse pointer at the very top of screen 
4. The tabs is no highlighted and is non-clickable.

Expected Results:  
Should be able to click anywhere along tab bar.
Actual Results:  
Unable to click and activate any tab 

Expected Results:  
Should be able to click anywhere along top tab bar

Comment 1

[pumay]

Attachment: Hover the tab, normal

Comment 2

[pumay]

Attachment: Non-clickable area on top of each tab and not hover

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Not a duplicate of bug 624129

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

No, but the discussion is there.

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> No, but the discussion is there.

Still doesn't make this a duplicate.

Comment 7

[pumay]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 624129 ***

Not a duplicate, because bug 624129 - for x86 Windows 7
This bug on Windows XP.

Comment 8

[Jo Hermans]

It's the same code. Even though Windows XP still uses the menubar as default, it can also display the tabs in the titlebar (otherwise you wouldn't have seen the bug in the first place).

Comment 9

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Same code, quite different bug report.

Comment 10

[Luke Iliffe (Harlequin99)]

Dup of bug 624225 instead?

Comment 11

[Marat Tanalin]

Just note: under Windows 7, the bug is not exposed. Firefox 4 under Windows XP should behave just the same as under Windows 7.

Tab clickability face to face to top screen edge with no any unclickable gaps is very important for usability of tabs placed in titlebar.

Comment 12

[pumay]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Just note: under Windows 7, the bug is not exposed. Firefox 4 under Windows XP
> should behave just the same as under Windows 7.
> 
> Tab clickability face to face to top screen edge with no any unclickable gaps
> is very important for usability of tabs placed in titlebar.

This bug ONLY under Windows XP !
In Windows 7 all OK.

Comment 13

[Marat Tanalin]

(In reply to comment #12)
> This bug ONLY under Windows XP !
> In Windows 7 all OK.

This is exactly what is my comment about.

Comment 14

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I think this should be a softblocker for XP. It's not the default toolbar state but for those who do switch, it's an unfortunate shortcoming in a very common usage case.

Comment 16

[Sheila Mooney]

Johnath, here's another one for your list.

Comment 17

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

Attachment: Windows XP - 120 DPI

I'm running Windows XP on a laptop set to a DPI setting of "Large size (120
DPI)" and the different is a lot worse.  Tabs only take up about 60% the title
bar.

I never even realized it was supposed to take up the entire title bar.

Comment 18

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

Just to give you some values of the different elements heights on my machine:

1. The titlebar vbox has a height of 32px.
2. The TabsToolbar toolbar has a height of 23px.
3. The tab-view-deck deck has a height of 1158px.
4. The entire window has a height of 1170px.

Comment 19

[Zio_Fede]

New branding changes triggered this bug again.

Comment 20

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Re-opening as per comment 19.

Comment 21

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Bug 640490 has been backed out, closing again.