65186 - Sidebar opens with every new browser window

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Eray Ozkural]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre21 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010105
BuildID:    2001010517

When there's a sidebar opened on a window, any new browser window opened will
have the sidebar open. This is undesirable, because I expect that when I open a
new windows from a browser window without a sidebar then the new window should
not assume a sidebar (diminishing the display areat)

I'm using mozilla 0.7

Thanks,

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Open sidebar in a window(internet search for instance)
Open a new browser window from another window without the sidebar.


Actual Results:  I had a browser window that has the sidebar opened in another
browser window.

Expected Results:  Sidebar open/close should be inherited from the parent
browser window.
 (the window from which the new browser window was opened)

Comment 1

[Stephan Niemz]

Works for me on Linux and on NT4.
I get exactly what you state as expected results: the new browser window has the
sidebar open iff the previous one has it open, too.

Please check your Preferences ... Navigator ... Internet Search: do you have
"open the search tab in my sidebar" activated? If so, the sidebar opens
automatically on a page with Internet search results.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

The visibility of the sidebar depends on whether it was last opened or closed,
not whether it is currently open or closed. This also applies to the toolbars.

Comment 3

[jay garcia]

Build 2001011204

Sidebar remains open or closed in new window as it should. Sidebar choice does
not change from site to site or new/old window. 

Comment 4

[Stephan Niemz]

verified invalid