852976 - Messages minimised in Gmail composer automatically restore when switching tabs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Oisín Mac Fhearaí]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130314 Firefox/21.0
Build ID: 20130314042011

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new email (or open an existing draft), which pops up as an overlay.
2. Minimise the email by clicking its title bar (twice in FF, apparently once in Chrome and Safari - don't know if that is related) or clicking the minimise symbol near the top right.
3. Switch to another browser tab.
4. Switch back to Gmail tab.


Actual results:

The message pops back up, obscuring the inbox and anything else.


Expected results:

The message stays minimised to the bottom right of the page, allowing you to work with your inbox and compose other emails easily.

Tested on Mac x64, Windows x86 and x64 Aurora. Behaviour does not occur with Chrome and Safari (on Mac).

Comment 1

[Loic]

Do you know if the issue is present in previous versions of Firefox (Firefox 19 or older)?

Comment 2

[Oisín Mac Fhearaí]

(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> Do you know if the issue is present in previous versions of Firefox (Firefox
> 19 or older)?

Hi, I've only started seeing this behaviour in the last couple of weeks. Not sure exactly when it started, but it annoyed me enough to post a message on Google's forums 9 days ago, before testing and finding today that Chrome and Safari don't exhibit the behaviour.

Comment 3

[Loic]

Maybe there is a regression.

Could you test with a fresh profile to exclude possible issues with broken profile, please: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 4

[Oisín Mac Fhearaí]

Hmm. I tested an old version (Firefox 5.0) with a blank profile and observed the same behaviour.

So it might not be a regression, but rather something new in the Gmail interface which causes unexpected behaviour on Firefox.

Comment 5

[Mitza]

I think this issue should be moved to General component.

Comment 6

[Loic]

Please, stop requesting moving untriaged bugs in General component, because in general, it doesn't own to General.

Comment 7

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to Oisín Mac Fhearaí from comment #0)
> Actual results:
> The message pops back up, obscuring the inbox and anything else.
I cannot reproduce this. The message stays minimized. FF 21.0a2 (2013-04-01) Win 7 x64
The only strange behavior I see is when pressing ALT key to show the top hidden menu bar - then the message gets maximized (in a strange way, not entirely).
And this is not a regression, reproducible on FF 4.0.1

Comment 8

[Oisín Mac Fhearaí]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi [QA] from comment #7)
> (In reply to Oisín Mac Fhearaí from comment #0)
> > Actual results:
> > The message pops back up, obscuring the inbox and anything else.
> I cannot reproduce this. The message stays minimized. FF 21.0a2 (2013-04-01)
> Win 7 x64
> The only strange behavior I see is when pressing ALT key to show the top
> hidden menu bar - then the message gets maximized (in a strange way, not
> entirely).
> And this is not a regression, reproducible on FF 4.0.1

Just tested in the 2013-03-24 build and it's staying minimised there, too. Great! Not sure what's changed or why, but hey.

Comment 9

[Hans Peter]

Just tested it on 20.0 release (OS X) - No problem here, and just one click on the title to minimize.

Comment 10

[u279076]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi [QA] from comment #7)
> The only strange behavior I see is when pressing ALT key to show the top
> hidden menu bar - then the message gets maximized (in a strange way, not
> entirely). And this is not a regression, reproducible on FF 4.0.1

I think this should be filed in a new bug, Paul.

Based on later comments in this bug the issue reported seems to now be resolved. Marking this bug resolved worksforme.

Comment 11

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to Anthony Hughes, Mozilla QA (:ashughes) from comment #10)
> I think this should be filed in a new bug, Paul.
bug 858499 filed