852012 - Unable to switch between tabs, tapping on tabs has no reaction

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 851894

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130314 Firefox/21.0
Build ID: 20130314042011

Steps to reproduce:

1) Click links from other applications which open tabs in Firefox.
2) tap the number on the top right corner (phone version) to open the tab slider
3) tap on another tab to switch to it or tap the X to the right of one to close it or try to swipe a tab out of the list


Actual results:

nothing at all.


Expected results:

I should have switched to the tab I touched, or had the tab removed when tapping X or swiping it.

All actions on the tab section seem nonresponsive.  I can switch between Tabs, Private Tabs, and Synced tabs, and I can add a new tab, and I can back out of the tab slider by hitting the Back button, but I can't do anything in the tab list itself.

I tried to get an ADB trace, but no errors are reported.  All I see is information about the tab sync process running in the background.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

22.0a1 (2013-03-17) - behavior is new with this build, yesterday's worked fine.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

HTC Evo 3D / Android 4.0.3 / HTC Sense 3.6

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I can also reproduce this on:

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 / Android 4.0.4 / Cyanogenmod 9

further information: I can't scroll the tab area either.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Private Browsing tab bar works fine.  I can scroll in the tab bar and switch between private tabs at will.  The normal tab section is still completely unresponsive.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Going to bump this to critical because I can reproduce it on two different devices with two different OS versions and form factors, and it basically makes the browser unusable.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Looks like Bugzilla's duplicate detection doesn't find stuff that's "recently fixed" or I just didn't know the right terminology to search on or something.