825543 - Node info bar still responds to mouse pointer when hidden

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P2)

Description

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

STR:
* Inspect an element with the inspector panel. Note the position of the node info bar.
* Switch to a different panel. The node info bar disappears, but if you move the mouse to where it was, the cursor changes to an I-beam or you get the tooltip of the bar.

Comment 1

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

Is it still true in a very recent nightly? I thought I fixed that (bug 817705).

Comment 2

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

Please re-open if you still have the problem.

Comment 3

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Yes, I still see this in the latest Nightly.

This seems to be the problem:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a812ef63de87/browser/base/content/highlighter.css#l73

Comment 4

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

I think we should destroy the highlighter, not just hide it.

Comment 5

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

I can confirm this is an issue in the latest Aurora, and it can be a really issue if you don't catch on to what's happening. In mt case, the node info element was sitting over something I was trying to test by clicking. It just seemed like the page was buggy until I randomly clicked on the invisible node info element's select dropdown. It became clear this was what was blocking my UI events.

Any chance we can get a fix to this soon? It can make you think there are other issues with your app or Firefox if you don't happen to discover the real source of the issue.

Comment 6

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

"can be a really *difficult* issue" - I'm tired :/

Comment 7

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

I believe this will be addressed in the new implementation of the highlighter.

Comment 8

[Gabriel Luong [:gl] (ΦωΦ)]

Marking as WONTFIX since the node info bar no longer exists