778391 - The suggestions come above the menus

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Hello,

I have now Firefox 14.0.1 on Windows Vista. I paste some text in the address bar, and I quickly click the Firefox menu. The Firefox menu shows. So far, so good. But after some time, the suggestions of the address bar appear above the Firefox menu. But the Firefox menu is still active. The graphical user interface is **** up. The suggestions are active and the Firefox menu too, but they play on the same ground. This is wrong. When I am in a menu, I am in a menu. The address bar suggestions must not come above the menu.

See screen film : http://screencast.com/t/JQVbcno4z4j

Thank you for correcting that bug, and keep up the good work !

Nicolas

Comment 1

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700118

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window(m-c)
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/78f821cb8974
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120119 Firefox/12.0a1 ID:20120119042014
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e5e66f40c35b
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120119 Firefox/12.0a1 ID:20120119104214
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=78f821cb8974&tochange=e5e66f40c35b

Regression window(m-i)
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/eea95e86541f
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120119 Firefox/12.0a1 ID:20120119024012
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/19a5e75b8ed8
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120119 Firefox/12.0a1 ID:20120119033312
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=eea95e86541f&tochange=19a5e75b8ed8


In local build
Last Good: 2d06b0b645b5
First Bad: 19a5e75b8ed8

Triggered by 19a5e75b8ed8	Marco Bonardo   Bug 717772 - Delay autocomplete of pasted value. r=gavin

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Neil: I don't think we ever want autocomplete popups to appear while a menu is open. Is there popup manager code that handles similar cases already? Or is there a way to configure a specific panel to be hidden when other (overlapping?) panels are shown?

Comment 4

[Neil Deakin]

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (use [e-mail] for email) from comment #3)
> Neil: I don't think we ever want autocomplete popups to appear while a menu
> is open. Is there popup manager code that handles similar cases already?

I'm assuming the autocomplete widget is manually delaying calling openPopup. The popup manager or widget code doesn't know about this, so it doesn't understand not to open the autocomplete panel.

I'm pretty sure some code either in Firefox or some addon relies on being able to open panels while a menu is open though. I recall someone asking me a while back about having a preview panel appear while hovering over menuitems or somesuch.

You could however add something in a popupshowing listener for the autocomplete panel, that while the open delay is active, cancels opening the panel if the popupshowing event is for some other popup.

Comment 5

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Now I encounter this bug in Firefox 16.0.2, on Linux.

I paste some text in the address bar, by pressing Ctrl V or by right click. I quickly click on the History menu. I get the History menu, but then the address bar suggestions appear. I still have the History menu (which is good), but the address bar suggestions float above it (which is bad).

Comment 7

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

The bug occurs also with the Google search field, and also on Mac. See bug 700118.

Comment 8

[arni2033]

Attachment: The suggestions come above the context menu of tabs toolbar.png

The title is absolutely correct and it's still happening.
Also, 1st STR in bug 1187647 describes similar issue.

Comment 9

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.