Pop-up menus stop working after a while

[Stephan Diestelhorst]

After surfing for a while, the pop-up menus from clicking on extension icons in the icon bar and right-click menus do not open anymore. When I click on such an icon or want to open the right-click context menu, only an empty frame is briefly drawn on screen but immediatly disappears, again.

I could NOT reproduce with identical upstream Aurora builds, so I presume it is something special to the Ubuntu Aurora builds, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840378

Uninstalling the globalmenu extension (and also running with all extensions disabled) still causes the issue to happen. but also has the menu of firefox still integrated into my KDE menu (behind a button in the title bar). Popups in other applications (also GTK) are not affected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 22.0~a2~hg20130404r133299-0ubuntu1~umd1~precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.40-030240-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
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 /dev/snd/controlC0: syon 13145 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20130404223729
CRDA:
 country DE:
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Card0.Amixer.info:
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   Mixer name : 'Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)'
   Components : 'HDA:14f15051,17aa20ff,00100000'
   Controls : 17
   Simple ctrls : 13
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   Controls : 2
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   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [off]
Channel: Unavailable
Date: Fri Apr 5 13:21:57 2013
DefaultProfilePlugins:
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 Shockwave Flash - /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so (browser-plugin-gnash)
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EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ForcedLayersAccel: False
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IpRoute:
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MarkForUpload: True
MostRecentCrashID: bp-c246e342-426b-4c37-9fca-845c02130307
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Profile1PrefSources: prefs.js
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RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-09-13 (204 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/17/2009
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[Stephan Diestelhorst (syon)]

Inspecting the Ubuntu package deltas for Aurora, there is a patch in debian/patches/unity-menubar.patch that seems to hint that things change here wrt. the upstream handling.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is a bug in dbusmenu-qt for sending bogus timestamps, and is a duplicate of an already existing bug