Bug 708870

Summary:	firefox's ui.use_native_popup_windows option fails on kde, xfce
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ryan Farmer <ryanfarmer>
Component:	oxygen-gtk	Assignee:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	alekcejk, gecko-bugs-nobody, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rnovacek, ry, smparrish, stransky, than
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Description Ryan Farmer 2011-05-29 23:33:45 UTC

Description of problem:

Using the default Fedora Firefox profile, drop down form menus in web pages do nothing. (At least under KDE).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Firefox 4.0.1

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox under KDE, try to use a drop down form menu such as the one on the Fedora start page (such as language selection or license selection next to the search box.
2. Observe that the menu does not drop down.

Expected results:

Menus drop down as they would normally.

Additional info:

Entering about:config and toggling the preference ui.use_native_popup_windows boolean to false fixes the problem immediately.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2011-12-07 11:48:51 UTC

Looks like a KDE problem when firefox can't run native widgets.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2011-12-07 13:01:03 UTC

I can confirm this on f14 too using ff 3.6.24 (f16's ff no longer has this option, fwiw), guessing it may be related to oxygen-gtk in use.  (I'll try testing other gtk widget/themes here in a bit).

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2011-12-07 13:08:22 UTC

switching to clearlooks didn't help.

Starting to think kde is not relevant, I can reproduce the same badness on xfce too.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2011-12-07 13:10:22 UTC

and tested gnome (f14), fails there too.

Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2011-12-07 14:00:16 UTC

This bug is against F15 (Firefox 8.0 recently), not F14. It works fine on F15/Gnome3. So please retest on KDE/F15.

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2011-12-07 14:14:27 UTC

I'm going to hope and assume that you tested firefox/gnome (on f15) successfully.

Comment 7 Martin Stransky 2011-12-07 14:24:22 UTC

Yes, I have F15/Gnome3 on my production box right now.

Comment 8 Ryan Farmer 2012-03-26 07:31:00 UTC

Closing. Firefox upstream has removed the preference that was causing this problem, and Fedora is no longer shipping a version that exhibits the behavior or that preference.