Unused empty menu bar

[ngc2997]

See http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1122-3/ for anyone wondering why this was a security update

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Binary package hint: thunderbird

With the global menu being active, TB still shows an empty unused menu bar at the top of its window in both maximized and un-maximized states. This might have been introduced with the latest 3.1.10 update, or at least I've never noticed this issue before updating TB this morning. Screenshot attached.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Are there any other widgets on the menubar?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Not confirming here btw. Can you try on a fresh profile?

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

Chris, that "menu bar"-like space is completely empty. Actually, I am not sure if it is related to the menu bar at all, it just looks like one, of course without any items, and seems to have an appropriate size. I'll try with a new profile now.

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

...See attached screenshot - same issue with a fresh profile.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The second screenshot shows that the spinner is still on the menubar. Are you sure you are using thunderbird 3.1? I know that this is a bug with 3.3 right now, but I don't get this at all with 3.1 (the spinner is automatically moved to the mail toolbar)

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

You are right, there is a spinner in the screenshot, didn't notice that before - however, looking at TB right now I do not see one. Strange.

This is the version string from the About window: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Ah, I don't see this because I manually moved the spinner on to my mail toolbar. I can confirm it now. I just need to try and figure out why this has stopped working

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

Hm, guess I was just confusing myself - the screenshot with the spinner is that of the fresh profile. On my current (real) profile, the spinner is actually not visible.

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

Slightly OT: is there a way to get the spinner back into my profile in order to move it manually? (I.e., other than creating an entirely new profile...) - Resetting the tool bar had no such effect.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

M'eh, I see why this doesn't work now. It's fallout from bug 767966. I didn't catch it because I've already moved the spinner on my profile :(

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Hmmm, maybe it's not then. I thought I'd figured it out, but it turns out not to be the case

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

What other extensions do you have installed?

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

Enigmail 1.1.2 and Global Menu Bar integration 1.0.3.

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

Chris, I've just tried with a fresh profile again - even when moving the spinner to the mail toolbar manually, the surplus "menu bar" does not disappear. FYI.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This turned out to be a really silly bug:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~extension-hackers/globalmenu-extension/0.1/revision/151

We were disconnecting the observer which listens for the menu service and moves the spinner, when the window loads (rather than when it is unloaded). D'oh

[Dan Jared (danjaredg)]

when will the patch be updated?

[Etienne (etsnyman)]

My workaround was to simply right-click on that empty menu-bar area within Thunderbird, click "Customise" and then drag the spinner off the menu bar. But this is still a workaround. Here's to hoping for the fix to go downstream to the average user.

[Stefan Löffler (st.loeffler)]

Thanks Etienne, this worked like a charm for me (though in my case, it was a simple spacer to be dragged away - the spinner is placed as in the screenshot in comment #5)

[Stefan Löffler (st.loeffler)]

Or not. My previous comment (#19) only works until you tab out of thundebird and back in :(.

[Dan Jared (danjaredg)]

The only workarround is do manual update. You need replace the file "/<email address hidden>/chrome/globalmenu.jar" with attachment file in this comment

[Dan Jared (danjaredg)]

I watched my comment in other computer but not show the correct path of file (the launchpad believes it is a email), so, I write the path with spaces to others can see it. Only you remember to the real path is without spaces.

/usr/lib/thunderbird-addons/extensions/ globalmenu @ ubuntu.com /chrome/globalmenu.jar

[Luca Mina (luca-mina)]

the workaround proposed by Dan Jared works on my PC

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Since this appears to only be cosmetic, I'm lowering the importance.

[Joschi Poschi (joschiposchi)]

I'm facing this problem in Firefox 4. How can I fix it there? Tried to remove the empty bar by dragging it to the "customize" window, didn't work.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This problem is specific to Thunderbird. The only reason the menubar would remain visible in Firefox is if there is a widget other than the menu inside it (which there isn't, by default)

[Joschi Poschi (joschiposchi)]

Strangely Foxytunes caused that problem, I wonder what that add-on does to add that empty bar up there.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

It adds two widgets to the menubar (one of these is a toolbarspring and the other one is an empty box, according to DOM inspector). There's nothing I can do about that. I can't make globalmenu-extension hide the menubar when there are still other widgets on it, in case the user added them there deliberately. For Thunderbird, we have a hack to move the spinner on to the toolbar, but that's only because the spinner is on the menubar in the default profile.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Uploaded to ubuntu-mozilla-security PPA

[Thierry JOFFREDO (thierry-joffredo)]

Hi, I've got exactly the same issue with FF4.0.1 and Adblock Plus 1.3.7... when I desactivate Adblock Plus, the empty (really empty: I can't see anything in it) menu bar disappears.

[Joschi Poschi (joschiposchi)]

That's really strange as for me it was FoxyTunes adding the empty bar, Adblock together with the global menu works quite well for me. For one person this add-on for the other another add-on causing an empty bar seems strange.

[Thierry JOFFREDO (thierry-joffredo)]

I fixed it yesterday, but I really don't know why it worked...
In the DOM tab of Firebug, I saw a "menubar" entry, and changed the "visible" value from true to false by double-clicking on it (see file attached). Immediately the empty menu bar disappeared, and since this moment everything is OK (after restarting Firefox or rebooting my machine) though this value has come back to "true", obviously... I can't explain.

[nandelbosc (nandelbosc-gmail)]

The patch in comment 21 works great!

Thank's

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Comment 21 doesn't have a patch and certainly isn't the right way to fix this bug. Downloading random files like that from bug reports and replacing application files with them is a sure way to end up breaking your machine.

The patch which really fixes this bug is here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~extension-hackers/globalmenu-extension/0.1/revision/151.

The correct fix is already in oneiric and also in the ubuntu-mozilla-security PPA - https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa

[ngc2997 (ngc2997-deactivatedaccount)]

Is there some kind of time frame specifying when this will be pushed to the "official" Natty repositories?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I'm not sure. That's a question for Micah

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package thunderbird - 3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2

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thunderbird (3.1.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2) natty-security; urgency=low

  * Fix LP: #777619 - Unused empty menu bar
    - update globalmenu-extension to 1.0.4
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Mon, 16 May 2011 15:15:49 -0500