Not showing context menus with extension Minimize On Start and Close

[Serrano Pereira]

I did a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 and reuse my home partition. Now Thunderbird doesn't show context menus when the extension "Minimize On Start and Close" is enabled. The following mouse click actions no longer give the desired result:

- Right-clicking an email in the list of emails no longer shows a sub menu. Now I have to go to the menu bar and click on the "Message" menu item to get that menu.
- Right-clicking the body of an email no longer shows the Message menu.
- Right/Left-clicking the header items of an email (from, subject, to, cc, ...) no longer displays the corresponding menu's.
- Right clicking folders in the left panel no longer shows menu's.
- Some buttons in Thunderbird have a small down arrow on the right side of the button. Clicking this arrow should display a menu. Clicking this arrow no longer shows a menu.

Disabling the extension solved the above issues. The above issues don't happen in Ubuntu 10.10 (with an up-to-date Thunderbird).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: thunderbird 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: serrano 2185 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: serrano 2185 F...m pulseaudio
BuildID: 20110929181644
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf4600000 irq 48'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP77/78 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0662,15580806,00100101 HDA:10de0003,10de0101,00100000'
   Controls : 29
   Simple ctrls : 15
Channel: release
Date: Mon Oct 24 14:25:56 2011
ForcedLayersAccel: False
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111011)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.34 metric 1
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.6 metric 2
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0.1/20110929181644 (Running)
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-22 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/02/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: 1.02.22
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: M740TU(N)/M760TU(N)/W7X0TUN
dmi.board.vendor: CLEVO Co.
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvr1.02.22:bd04/02/2009:svnCLEVOCO.:pnM740TU(N)/M760TU(N)/W7X0TUN:pvrNotApplicable:rvnCLEVOCo.:rnM740TU(N)/M760TU(N)/W7X0TUN:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNoEnclosure:ct1:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: M740TU(N)/M760TU(N)/W7X0TUN
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: CLEVO CO.

[Serrano Pereira (serrano-pereira)]

Upon more investigation I found out that this was caused by a specific extension I have enabled: Minimize On Start and Close 1.3.2

Disabling this extension solves the problem. I don't have this problem in Ubuntu 10.10 where I use an up-to-date version of Thunderbird from the Mozilla Team PPA. Probably something specific for Ubuntu 11.10 in combination with this extension causes this problem.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Closed per reporter’s comment above; not a bug anymore.