739388 - SDK based add-ons which add a widget in the add-on bar now add a window to the top left of the browser in latest nightly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

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Attachment: Screenshot

Please see the screenshot attached.  I reproduced this with either the Gecko Profiler or the Collusion add-ons installed and enabled.  The two things they have in common is that they're both using the add-on SDK, and they put a widget in the add-on bar.

Comment 1

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

I'm just guessing as I'm not able to reproduce this issue on Windows, nor Linuw ...
It looks like an iframe in the hidden window is appearing!!
But it wouldn't explain why it fails on Collusion addon, as it shouldn't involved anything in the hidden window.
Could you produce a screenshot of this issue for collusion?

Comment 2

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For Collusion the window is just blank (white).  And this happens on Mac.

Comment 3

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #0)
> Created attachment 609470 [details]
> Screenshot
> 
> Please see the screenshot attached.  I reproduced this with either the Gecko
> Profiler or the Collusion add-ons installed and enabled.  The two things
> they have in common is that they're both using the add-on SDK, and they put
> a widget in the add-on bar.

I just tried creating a widget with add-on sdk on nightly and I don't see any top window being added. Also I run on nightly and have collision add-on installed and I don't see anything similar either.

Ehsan could you by a chance reduce a test case further so we could reproduce it ?

Comment 4

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

(In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #2)
> For Collusion the window is just blank (white).  And this happens on Mac.

Just to be sure.
Could you run the following script, without any addon installed, in scratchpad, in "chrome" mode ?
---
var appShellService = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/appShellService;1"]
                      .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIAppShellService);

var win = appShellService.hiddenDOMWindow;
var doc = win.document;

var iframe = doc.createElement("iframe");
iframe.src="data:text/html,HiddenDocument";
doc.documentElement.appendChild(iframe);
---

If you see a window appearing, it would be a platform issue.

Comment 5

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(In reply to Irakli Gozilalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #0)
> > Created attachment 609470 [details]
> > Screenshot
> > 
> > Please see the screenshot attached.  I reproduced this with either the Gecko
> > Profiler or the Collusion add-ons installed and enabled.  The two things
> > they have in common is that they're both using the add-on SDK, and they put
> > a widget in the add-on bar.
> 
> I just tried creating a widget with add-on sdk on nightly and I don't see
> any top window being added. Also I run on nightly and have collision add-on
> installed and I don't see anything similar either.
> 
> Ehsan could you by a chance reduce a test case further so we could reproduce
> it ?

I don't know how to do that.  I was not developing any add-ons, I just restarted my browser and saw this, and the window did not go away until I disabled both those add-ons and restarted.

Comment 6

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(In reply to Alexandre Poirot (:ochameau) from comment #4)
> (In reply to Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] from comment #2)
> > For Collusion the window is just blank (white).  And this happens on Mac.
> 
> Just to be sure.
> Could you run the following script, without any addon installed, in
> scratchpad, in "chrome" mode ?
> ---
> var appShellService =
> Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/appShellService;1"]
>                       .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIAppShellService);
> 
> var win = appShellService.hiddenDOMWindow;
> var doc = win.document;
> 
> var iframe = doc.createElement("iframe");
> iframe.src="data:text/html,HiddenDocument";
> doc.documentElement.appendChild(iframe);
> ---
> 
> If you see a window appearing, it would be a platform issue.

I opened about:config, opened the web console, and pasted this in.  No extra windows appeared.

Comment 7

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

I'll try to provide you another test tomorrow, using type="content" iframes.
I highly suspect the hidden window, but I may be wrong ...

In the meantime, could you give us some more info on your environnement?
Like MacOS version, graphic card, any special preference?

Comment 8

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I'm on 10.6.8, using the latest Nightly.  Here's my about:support contents:



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Comment 9

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Ehsan, are you still seeing this?

Comment 10

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No.