1156547 - Twitter account permissioning error: "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1121874

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Account wizard, defect)

Description

[Oliver Doepner]

Attachment: instantbird-add-account_twitter-api-error.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 Iceweasel/35.0.1
Build ID: 20150130063252

Steps to reproduce:

The following happens both on Windows 7 and on Debian GNU/Linux, after successful installation of Instantbird 1.5 (using downloaded auto-suggested package from http://www.instantbird.com/ as of today), when I try to set up Twitter (using my functional Twitter account, password copied directly from Firefox password manager): 

-Instantbird - Tools - Accounts - New Account - Twitter
-Specified my username "odoepner"
-Skipped alias assignment step
-Unchecked the "Sign on on startup" checkbox

So far so good. Account is listed in the "Accounts" window.

Then I 
- clicked the "Connect" button
- entered username/password on Twitter login popup
- clicked the Authorize button



Actual results:

The Instantbird dialog window (also see attached screenshot) with the heading 

Twitter - odoepner
Give permission to use your Twitter account

shows the following error message:

Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!
You can search Twitter using the search box below or return to the homepage.

If I close the dialog the Twitter account is listed in the Accounts list, but with message in red: "Error: You cancelled the authorization process"


Expected results:

App authorization should have completed successfully

Comment 1

[aleth [:aleth]]

Thanks for reporting this! It's also filed as bug 1121874 (see comment 7).

It would be very helpful if you could let us know there if the workaround mentioned in that bug works for you (i.e. changing the value of the pref).

Comment 2

[Oliver Doepner]

Thanks so much aleth !

I can confirm that setting network.cookie.cookieBehavior to 0 is a valid workaround.

I did it like this:
- Go to Instantbird - Tools - Preferences - Advanced - Config Editor
- Search for network.cookie.cookieBehavior
- Right-click the settings and change the value to 0
- Open the Accounts list window
- Retry the "Connect" button for your Twitter account