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FS#24852 - Firefox shows drop down menu at top left corner of screen

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Amitav (amitavmohanty01) - Thursday, 23 June 2011, 21:40 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 15:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:
Firefox 5 shows drop down menu in top left corner of screen instead of its appropriate position

Additional info:
* package version(s)
KDE 4.6.3
Firefox 5.0-1

Steps to reproduce:
Try sites like our bugzilla or irctc.co.in and you will find the drop down menu at top left corner.
   irctc.png (152.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 15:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cg i?id=671984
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 00:06 GMT
I can not confirm that.
Did you try with a clean Firefox profile?
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 07:41 GMT
It's right here..
Comment by Uli (Army) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 08:53 GMT
It happens here only with the addon pentadactyl enabled.
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 08:54 GMT
Using pentadactyl, works for me.

Could be a window manager bug.
Comment by Uli (Army) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 09:48 GMT
Ok, indeed! i3 is my window manager. When Firefox is in tiling mode, the bug appears, in floating mode it's gone. I use pentadactyl-hg, forgot to be more precise. It seems like a combination of i3 and pentadactyl, because, as I said before, without pentadactyl it's fine, even in tiling mode.
Comment by Uli (Army) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 09:52 GMT
Oh by the way, the drop down menu jumps to its right place as soon as I press the "arrow down" key. Amitav, is that the same on your machine?
Comment by Amitav (amitavmohanty01) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 13:22 GMT
Well I have not tried the arrow keys but as soon as I move the mouse towards the menu, it jumps back to its correct position.

I agree on the point that it could be a window manager bug and that it why I mentioned my window manager details in the bug.

By the way, I have removed the title bar for Firefox in Window manager settings.
Comment by Amitav (amitavmohanty01) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 13:58 GMT
It certainly is a window manager bug. I restored the title bar and issue is no more.
Comment by Uli (Army) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 15:29 GMT
Are you sure?
As said before, I use i3 as WM and firefox with pentadactyl. Usually my firefox has nothing on top (no menubar, no tab bar, ...). That way the bug appears. But now I activated the menu bar and the bug is gone.
I think it's a bug in firefox.
Comment by Uli (Army) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 17:42 GMT
Ok, now I understand it (at least I think so)

i3 can switch between 3 border styles, see http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_border_style_for_new_windows. I usually have it borderless. Only in this border style + in tiling mode the bug appears, on the others it doesn't. Being in floating mode, there's no bug at all.

So is it a firefox bug or a wm bug? I honestly don't know ;)
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 21:52 GMT
report to mozilla.
Comment by Amitav (amitavmohanty01) - Friday, 15 July 2011, 22:45 GMT
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671984
Comment by Steffen Weber (boenki) - Sunday, 07 August 2011, 19:16 GMT
The same bug here with windowmanager xfwm4
but only when I remove the wm's decoration via devilspie (undecorate)
Comment by Amitav (amitavmohanty01) - Sunday, 25 September 2011, 19:56 GMT
Mozilla has not been very responsive about it. I urge people experiencing this bug to vote on my bug (link given above) if you are using kde or open a new bug if you are using some other desktop environment.

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