1110703 - Settings favicon missing when accessing sections of about:preferences directly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Andrei Vaida [:avaida]]

Reproducible on: Nightly 37.0a1 (2014-12-11), Aurora 36.0a2 (2014-12-12), Firefox 35.0b3 (build1/20141208150535), Firefox 34.0.5 (build1/20141126041045).

Affected platform(s): Windows 7x64, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86, Mac OS X 10.9.5.

STR:
1. Launch Firefox with a clean profile.
2. In the Location Bar, type in the following URL: about:preferences#sync and press ENTER.
3. Check the tab for a favicon.

ER: The tab displays the generic Options favicon (gear icon).

AR: The tab doesn't display a favicon at all.

Regression range (m-r):
* last good: bdac18bd6c74 (2014-06-20)
* first bad: 776f6d341b3f (2014-06-21)
* pushlog: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=bdac18bd6c74&tochange=776f6d341b3f

Potential regressors:
* 6e54974c922c Jared Wein — Bug 754304 - make in-content preferences linkable via URL. r=mattn
* 4d27c150d958 Jared Wein — Bug 754304 - make in-content preferences linkable via URL, follow-up to use the ignoreFragment API change that bug 1025195 landed. r=me
* 840334f37ae9 Vikneshwar — Bug 1027049 - Removed unused plugin infobar preferences. r=ttaubert

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/LddcSKY.png

Notes:
- I was unable to bisect m-i for a narrower regression range, will follow up on this matter later, if needed.
- This issues is *not* related to e10s, it happens with enabled and disabled.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This appears to wfm now.