Firefox on KDE Plasma 5 beta 5.10.95 with KWin

Quality Assurance Desktop Firefox
#1

2017-09-14: announcement of the beta (5.10.95), Plasma 5.11 Beta Makes the Desktop More Powerful, Elegant and Secure - KDE.org

2017-09-16: KDE kwin bug 384760 – absence of proper (current) titles in Task Manager where, for example, many windows are opened in rapid succession by Firefox or SeaMonkey. Patched 2017-09-18, fix committed 2017-09-23 (fixed in 5.11.0).

Separate from that bug, there’s an edge case where just one untitled page can have a <2> that’s unnecessary. Whilst I don’t plan to report that very minor/transient issue, it might encourage other testers to watch for titling issues.

Just two other incidents.

Probably a graphics driver issue, with Firefox present by coincidence:

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This incident more clearly affected Firefox:

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– but it wasn’t a showstopper. The workaround was simple enough, it began with a click on the maximise button.

Neither incident reported, because my FreeBSD-CURRENT is significantly outdated and I’m not likely to update in the near future. Just food for thought …

… testers of saner installations of KDE Plasma beta might like to watch out for such things.

#2

Very strange I am using KDE (on debian sid) with Firefox and I don’t have that issues.

For the <2> in the title is a behaviour of KDE when there are 2 window with the same title, as example open 2 dolphin instance to the same path and you will see that.

For the issue of first screen is probably something with the graphic driver and for the second one too.

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#3

To put it in context, here’s an untitled window <3> minimising whilst untitled window <2> remains visible:

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– and there are not three untitled windows. In this edge case, with two untitled windows, the ideal should be:

  • no title for the first
  • a <2> suffix for the second.

Side note

I normally use this to remove the ’ - Mozilla Firefox’ noise from windows of Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/firetitle/

– and the same extension, converted, to remove the ’ - SeaMonkey’ noise from windows of SeaMonkey.

#4

2017-10-03 07:34:00 KInfocentre — Info Center
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@Mte90 are/were your versions of KDE Plasma, KDE Frameworks and Qt the same as I have here? Respectively:

  • 5.10.95
  • 5.38.0
  • 5.7.1

The patch came quickly to Area 51. I wonder whether your distro was patched similarly in good time.

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This is mine seems that we have different versions other then distro but as my experience on KDE when there are that glitch is kwin and not Firefox.

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