Closed Bug 830034 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Awesome Bar stops working

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

18 Branch
x86
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 820327

People

(Reporter: schneidern, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: related to bug 814434 ?)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130104151948



Actual results:

Upon starting Firefox, the Awesome Bar works as expected. But after a few interactions with it (e.g., random typing), the dropdown no longer appears in response to typing or clicking the arrow. This persists until I restart Firefox, and happens even in safe mode. Otherwise the Location Bar works as expected (including autocomplete).
The problem started happening after upgrading from 17 to 18.

This is on a new MacBook Pro with Retina display, though I am using Firefox in an external monitor.
There are already some HiDPI mode related bugs but I'm unable to find a dupe.
Component: Untriaged → Widget: Cocoa
Product: Firefox → Core
Whiteboard: related to bug 814434 ?
Does this bug still happen if you turn off HiDPI support?

To do this, enter about:config in the location bar and set gfx.hidpi.enabled to -1, then restart Firefox.  (The default value of gfx.hidpi.enabled is 2.)
This is probably another manifestation of bug 820327; if so, it should be fixed in current Nightly or Aurora builds.
The behavior is correct when HiDPI is preffed off in FF 18, and also does not seem to be a problem in Aurora.
OK, thanks for confirming that. I'm going to close this as a dupe of 820327, then.

Note that the next Firefox 19 beta will have HiDPI disabled by default on multi-display systems, to avoid these issues; and it looks like if/when there's an 18.0.1 release, we'll make the same change there too. (This is happening in bug 814434.)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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