Open Bug 65279 Opened 24 years ago Updated 8 months ago

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

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(Core :: XUL, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect

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Milestone:
Future

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(Reporter: matxdr, Unassigned)

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(Keywords: helpwanted)

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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
*** Bug 65280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 65280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 65281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 65281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
No idea why this one has been submitted 3 times, but sorry for the mess...!
Confirmed Platform: PC OS: Linux 2.2.16 Mozilla Build: 2001011208 Marking NEW.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Changing OS to all
OS: Windows ME → All
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
not Browser General.
Assignee: asa → pinkerton
Component: Browser-General → XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus
QA Contact: doronr → jrgm
changing the summary. i guess this is valid but very low priority
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Keywords: helpwanted
Summary: Can't open a menu if back menu history is open → Two clicks required to open a menu if a popup is open
Target Milestone: --- → Future
This is the same as bug 72859, which I had marked wontfix.
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.
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.
*** Bug 142215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 156288 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: pt-menus
Dupe of bug 21390?
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.
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!
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.
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)
*** Bug 206967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
should any of the following be marked as blockers? bug 66834 Bug 188126 and is Bug 30167 a dup, a blocker, or just related?
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → XUL
QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.widgets

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

Assignee: mikepinkerton → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Severity: trivial → S4

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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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.

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

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