[Bug 1035755] Re: [firefox] Extension causes context/drop down menus to disappear

[Adam Porter]

I'm on Raring, and I had this bug many months ago, but I turned off the
global menu extension and was able to keep using Firefox.

Recently Firefox began having the same bug again, and I couldn't figure
out why.  I even removed firefox-globalmenu, but it kept happening.
Then I noticed that there is no longer an extension listed for it in
Firefox, and then I noticed that firefox-globalmenu suddenly became a
transitional package--i.e. it's built into the Firefox package, and
there's no way to disable it anymore.

So that leaves me with two choices:

a.  Restart Firefox many times per day.
b.  Turn off global menu for all applications.

Neither of these are good choices.

Thankfully, the libdbusmenu-qt2 package for Saucy works in Raring and
seems to solve this bug.

Now I'm left with two questions:

1.  When is the Raring package going to be upgraded?  It's essential
that it is upgraded: this is a major regression that popped up without
warning in the middle of Raring's lifecycle.

2.  Why was the globalmenu package merged into the main Firefox package?
Why is there no way to disable the global menu for Firefox?  This
resulted in Firefox's context menus suddenly failing to work at all,
with no apparent explanation.  On top of that, I had explicitly disabled
the global menu for Firefox, but this merge caused it to return without
my consent and without any way to disable it!

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Title:
  [firefox] Extension causes context/drop down menus to disappear

Status in libdbusmenu-qt:
  Confirmed
Status in “libdbusmenu-qt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “libdbusmenu-qt” package in Gentoo Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  For anyone looking into fixing this: see comment#4

  Symptom:
  With the Global Menu Integration enabled, sometimes drop down and context menus inside Firefox will stop working. They show up for a moment and immediately disappear. This includes context menus of tab buttons and web pages, and drop down menus opened from toolbar buttons. The problem lasts until Firefox is restarted.

  To reproduce:
  With Global Menu Integration enabled, toggle the Navigation toolbar (View - Toolbars - Navigation Toolbar).
  This is one way I've found that always reproduces the problem. Whether the toolbar was toggled on or off, it triggers the problem for me. It happens even when this is the only enabled extension, and does not happen when it is disabled.

  Sometimes the problem also seems to be triggered by opening a new tab
  but I haven't found a pattern in that.

  Environment:
  Firefox 14.0.1
  Global Menu Integration 3.2.6 package at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55724
  KDE 4.9.00
  Arch Linux

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