43190 - Navigator panel: home page location input field & radio buttons always blank

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P2)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

see this using 2000.06.20.08 commercial bits on all platforms.

1. open Preferences dialog.
2. go to Navigator category.
observe that the Location input field for specifying the home page is blank,
even if you click in it.

side note: still able to change [and save pref] the home page url.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

okay, instead of filing a seperate bug on the radio button issue, i'll include
it here since it seems related.

basically, when i open up the Preferences dialog, the radio buttons for the
Navigator panel (controlling startup page for browser) are not initialized. you
can select one of them, and save that setting (OK prefs dialog) for that
session. if you quit and restart, the next session (as with the location input
field in the same panel) will display *no* selected startup page.

the danger with this is that, if you leave either the radio buttons unselected
or the location field blank *and* click OK to dismiss the prefs: the subsequent
session will display about:blank as the startup --effectively removing the
expected startup webpage info from your prefs. bumping sev to major.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

*** Bug 43196 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

*** Bug 43198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

adding Stephan and Decklin to cc list...

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 43031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[leger]

Putting on [dogfood+][nsbeta2+] radar.

Comment 7

[don]

Matt ...

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

This is a timing problem.  initPanel() is getting called before Startup() and 
it looks for hPrefWindow, but at that time hPrefWindow is null because Startup
() hasn't executed yet.  This same exact problem also occurs when calling 
preferences from MailNews in the default pane.

Ben and I are looking at this (cc ben).

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

Bug 42850 deals with the same problem as this.  I'm reviewing the patch now to 
see if it fixes this...

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

decklin's patch worked, but there's a better one to fix the timing problem. ben 
just checked it in.

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy using 2000.06.23.08 comm bits on all/all.