User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050927 Debian/1.7.8-1sarge3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060317 Firefox/2.0a1 View -> Sidebar menu contains no elements. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Go to the menu or press Alt-V, E Actual Results: There is a small square instead of the menu Debian Sarge, GNOME

From where did you get the source to build Firefox?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060318 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:0000000000 Confirmed. If you have the All-in-One sidebar extension installed, the menu is populated, however.

That was a binary package from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/firefox-2.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz

Maybe this is related to bug 329236.

The sidebar is currently removed from Places-builds (see bug 329236 / bug 329068). Maybe we should remove the entry from the menubar too. Or at least disable it when there are no entries.

*** Bug 332394 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

In reply to comment #5: A number of extensions open sidebars, and at least two (Translation Panel and MR Tech Local Install) use the View > Sidebar menu item. Their response to removal of this menu item would be to clutter up the menus with menuitems for opening their sidebars. OTOH, perhaps a better approach would be to allow Places to open in a sidebar, thus repopulating the menu. The new placesPopup does not function as a sidebar, since it can cover content.

Not a 2.0 blocker. Only visible on the trunk.

Not a 2.0 blocker. Only visible on the trunk.

the history sidebar is coming back soon (based on the places backend, see bug #329236 and bug #356487), so once those land, this will be fixed.

fixed

Verified with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070522 Minefield/3.0a5pre

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h". In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows: Tools | Message Filters Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New" Conditions: Body contains places-to-b-and-h Change the action to "Delete Message". Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top. Click OK. Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter. Gerv