65279 - Two clicks required to open a menu if a popup is open

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[matxdr]

Build 2001011204.  When the back button "history" is displayed, you have to
click twice on a menu (File, View, Bookmark, etc) to use it.  One click hides
the history, the second actually uses the menu. To reproduce:

1- Visit a site
2- Visit another :-)
3- Click on the down arrow at the lower right of the back button, you'll see the
"back history"
4- Click on bookmark menu above the address bar

Result:  The back history disapears, but the bookmark menu doesn't open
Expected: Back history disapears, bookmark menu opens

NS 4.7x and IE5 reacts this way

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 65280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 65280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 65281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 65281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[matxdr]

No idea why this one has been submitted 3 times, but sorry for the mess...!

Comment 6

[Keyser Sose]

Confirmed
Platform: PC
OS: Linux 2.2.16
Mozilla Build: 2001011208
Marking NEW.

Comment 7

[matxdr]

Changing OS to all

Comment 8

[:deanis74]

I'm pretty sure this is as designed.  The menu captures all mouse clicks until 
it's dismissed.  It's just way easier this way.

cc: pink

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

not Browser General.

Comment 10

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

changing the summary. i guess this is valid but very low priority

Comment 11

[:deanis74]

This is the same as bug 72859, which I had marked wontfix.

Comment 12

[Travis Crump]

More generally, if any popup window is open, nothing else can be clicked.  For
example, you can't click on URLs in web pages.  However, mouseover on the links
still works(mouse cursor changes and status in status bar changes, as well as
any css dictated changes), and wheel scroll still works for the page.  This
leads user to believe that only one click should be necessary. 

Comment 13

[Jim Song]

There is a bug in Sun's bugtraq 4618013 which lead the desktop be locked.
It seems occuring as follow:
1) click one menu item to startup a program
2) the program is in a dead-loop, 
   but the menu has not be destroyed.
3) All other programs including the mozilla itself could not receive or
   response any X events

I believe that it is is closely related with this bug.  I also check the 
behavior of applications on Gnome, CDE, their menu does not act this way.
I really think it is strange that mozilla's menu act this way.

Comment 14

[Pierre Chanial]

*** Bug 142215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Pierre Chanial]

*** Bug 156288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[:deanis74]

Dupe of bug 21390?

Comment 17

[Paolo Marani]

If this behaviour is "by design" this does not mean that the design is
necessarily good, from the users point of view xul popup like those of folder in
personal toolbar are really menù, so they should react accordingly.

Comment 18

[mozilla]

someone see if this is the same as 30167?

Doesn't matter if this is 'by design' or not.  No other programs have this
behaviour, and users hate it.

It's a defect.  If I had a word processor where the letter 'a' had to be pressed
twice to appear, it wouldn't be marked 'trivial'.  It would be fixed poste-haste!

Comment 19

[Ian Nartowicz]

Please see bug 66834 and bug 187575.  This behaviour is considered a bug there
(platform dependant) and is being fixed under those bugs.  In particular see bug
66834 comment 77 for the desired default behaviour on different platforms.

Comment 20

[Vitaly Prapirny]

Platform: PC
OS: Windows 2000 Professional
Mozilla Build: 1.4b

1 Open one popup: right click on the page area or click on the down arrow at the
lower right of some toolbar button with arrow (Back/Forward/Print in Browser,
Attach/Security/Save in Compose Mail)
2 Click on the down arrow of another toolbar button - popup menu blinks
3 Next click on the same down arrow - we can see two popup menu opened

We can open two, three and more popup windows in the same time by click+click in
the down arrow of toolbar buttons. And it doesn't disappear when we close window
with toolbar (i.e. Compose Mail) if other mozilla windows still opened (i.e.
Browser)

Comment 21

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 206967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

should any of the following be marked as blockers?
 bug 66834
 Bug 188126

and is Bug 30167 a dup, a blocker, or just related?

Comment 23

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee is inactive on Bugzilla, so the assignee is being reset.

Comment 24

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S4. However, the bug has 3 duplicates.
:enndeakin, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 25

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.

Comment 26

[Vitaly Prapirny]

This seems to be fixed. It behaves as expected in Seamonkey 2.53.14

Comment 27

[Patrick Holub]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from wairahicsa1983.