705744 - Pop-up window closes on Accessibility API call

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Nick Moore]

Attachment: FirefoxBugTest.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox on a Mac and browse to http://en.wikipedia.org
2. Open a Terminal and run the attached program FirefoxBugTest (contained in FirefoxBugtest.zip; source code included)
3. Immediately (within 5 seconds) switch to Firefox and right-click, to bring up a contextual menu pop-up
4. Wait for 5 the seconds to elapse, and allow FirefoxBugTest to fire.

(Note: the program uses the Accessibility API (AXAPI) to try to read the title of a menu item in Firefox; in this case the Edit menu.)


Actual results:

The pop-up menu closed.


Expected results:

The pop-up menu should have remained open.

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Accessibility implementation is not a part of default Firefox build. Why do you think this is Firefox bug?

Comment 2

[Nick Moore]

My apologies if I have submitted this report with the incorrect category.

This is a bug which occurs in the standard shipping build of Firefox and it is reproducible using the test app I have supplied. I'm very happy to supply more information if required.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Should this be closed, given comment 1?

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I'm not sure if we expect this to work. Morgan, do you know what's going on here?

Comment 5

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

I think we can close this -- since we've switched to native context menus we no longer have control over the intricacies of opening/closing/maintaining state for context menus.