User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7 When I download anything and close all other browser windows the menus (file edit, etc.) are selectable(click them and they hilight) but they do not contain their menuitems. The shortcut keys (command-n for example) are inoperable also. Thanks again for a great browser! Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start a download (reasonably big so you have time to reproduce) 2.Close all other windows other then the download window 3.Try to use the menu, some times it works sometimes not Actual Results: As explained above a good portion of the time the menu was inoperable Expected Results: the menus should still be accessable so that you can create a new window

how hard could it be to get the same menus to work no matter what window is open? see bug 132027 for the exact same browser (seamonkey) bug. bumping to normal, this is very disruptive, only workaround is to close download manager. this has been around for a while. sigh.

This is NOT specific to download window being the only window open. It works the same if the only window active is "Find" dialog box. One workaround other than closing the windows, is to minimize the window (find dialog, downloads, etc) into the dock, then the keyboard and menu commands function again.

see comments at bug # 227525 for more elaboration, they seem to be connected? thanks

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*** Bug 234365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

One thing the last dupe mentions, which hasn't been stated explicitly here, is that for this bug to occur, the Download Manager (or Find window) only has to be the focused window. Other browser windows may be open and the menu items will still fail to work, if the focus is with the Download Manager.

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One thing that I've noticed with this bug, if you window that's open is the download manager, when you're download completes, and the window goes away (if it's set to) your menus function again. If that helps. It's still annoying though.

Summary of this bug has to be changed. Something like "All menus are unaccessable when Download Manager of Find dialog is focused" By the way it's reproducible for the JavaScript console too. It seams reproducible for every window except the browser windows which have the same set of menus like the browser. Most of the times, these windows don't have any menu in other platforms.

"how hard could it be" (comment 1). Answer: very, very. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21296 ***

possibly after 1.0 but certainly not for 0.9.

Reopening since this needs a workaround (adding dependence for bug 249003)

There is a user workaround that I've been doing when this happens. Using Expose, the window-selection feature with Mac OS 10.3.x, brings up a 'ghost' window when you press F10. Setting focus to the ghost window allows you to regain menu functionality again.

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Mac OS X: clicking on the dock icon brings up the download manager, not a new window. Clicking the close button on the download manager brings up a warning that the download will be interrupted if you exit, but on OS X this doesn't actually exit you so you can go ahead and close it... the download continues in the background.

Ben, why is this not a dupe of bug 245206?

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