1160076 - Broken in-content preferences Search tab with browser.search.showOneOffButtons = false

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Skyler Sully]

Attachment: Firefox_Bug-Preferences-Search.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150415140819

Steps to reproduce:

I'm currently running Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and just installed Firefox 37.0.2.  I installed add-ons for aesthetics and for functionality related to Web Development tools.  I'm not sure how to perform a dump of any crucial information you may need to fix this issue--but here's a little background:

1) After the initial install of Firefox, going to the Preferences (Firefox -> Preferences [Cmd+,]) produced the typical window containing all settings.  Nothing new here.
2) After installing all of the add-ons I needed (13 in total) as well as the Plugins I needed (5 in total), I took the time to configure the browser to my liking.  It looks perfect.
3) After finishing my configuration, going back to the Preferences window creates a new tab, whether I use the keyboard shortcut or go through the context menu.  Everything works fine with the exception of the 'Search' tab.

Steps to reproduce:

a. Go to Preferences [Cmd+,] or through context menu
b. A new tab opens containing the Preferences (this was new for me, but impressed)
c. Click on the 'Search' tab
d. Click on the "Default Search Engine" dropdown
e. Look at the "One-click search engines" table
f. (Optional) Click on the "Restore Default Search Engines" buttons


Actual results:

Actual Results:

[Steps a. and b. are skipped]
c. The Search tab (on left), the tab itself disappears, but the settings still appear
d. The dropdown is not populated, so an empty dropdown occurs
e. The "One-click search engines" table is empty
f.  No effect (that I noticed) after clicking the "Restore Default Search Engines" button

#NOTE: doing a refresh on the page returns the Search tab.


Expected results:

Expected Results:

[Steps a. and b. are skipped]
c. The Search tab (on left) shouldn't disappear
d. The dropdown is populated with the current default; onClick shows all engines
e. The "One-click search engines" table is populated with all installed Engines
f.  The default should be Yahoo, as this was the default engine after a fresh install

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Related: bug 1157186.

Do you have the same problem when you start Firefox in a brand new profile?
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

(In reply to Skyler Sully from comment #0)
> I'm not sure how to perform a dump of any crucial information you may need

1. Type about:support into the location bar and press Enter.
2. Click the Copy Text to Cliboard button.
3. Paste the clipboard contents in the comment reply box here, but don't submit the reply just yet.
4. Type about:plugins into the location bar and press Enter.
5. Select everything and copy it to the clipboard.
6. Paste the clipboard contents at the end of the comment reply box, then submit the comment.

> 3) After finishing my configuration, going back to the Preferences window
> creates a new tab

That shouldn't be happening until Firefox 38, which will be released around May 12. Did you at any point install a test version of Firefox like Beta or Nightly? If so, going back and forth between versions with the same profile probably mucked it up.

Comment 2

[Fanolian]

Attachment: Video showing the disappearing of Search preference

This can be caused by disabling one-click searches by setting browser.search.showOneOffButtons to false.

Comment 3

[Fanolian]

Video is corrupted when uploading to bugzilla. Here it is in gfycat:
https://gfycat.com/ZealousAmpleAfricanelephant

Comment 4

[Skyler Sully]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #1)
> Related: bug 1157186.

> 1. Type about:support into the location bar and press Enter.
> 2. Click the Copy Text to Cliboard button.
> 3. Paste the clipboard contents in the comment reply box here, but don't
> submit the reply just yet.

Application Basics
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Name: Firefox
Version: 37.0.2
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Multiprocess Windows: 0/1

Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days
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All Crash Reports

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JavaScript
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> 4. Type about:plugins into the location bar and press Enter.
> 5. Select everything and copy it to the clipboard.
> 6. Paste the clipboard contents at the end of the comment reply box, then
> submit the comment.


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> That shouldn't be happening until Firefox 38, which will be released around
> May 12. Did you at any point install a test version of Firefox like Beta or
> Nightly? If so, going back and forth between versions with the same profile
> probably mucked it up.

I'm running 37.0.2.  After seeing what e10s is capable of, now I'm interested in messing with some of the betas/nightlies.  Still, I suspect that one of the Extensions I installed is responsible.  It wasn't until after I installed the Classic Theme Restorer 1.3.1.1 (which was required for the Plugin Tabs Groups 0.52 I installed).  Hold on, more info to come after seeing the recent comments.

Comment 5

[Skyler Sully]

(In reply to Fanolian from comment #2)
> Created attachment 8600616 [details]
> Video showing the disappearing of Search preference
> 
> This can be caused by disabling one-click searches by setting
> browser.search.showOneOffButtons to false.

Turns out that this fixed the problem. However, I never disabled that config value, but it was indeed set to false (user set).  I'm not sure if one of my plugins was responsible, but I need to do some additional testing as to how this happened.  I need to reinstall Mac OS X anyway, so I'll be able to track down where the issue was invoked.

I also have to try this from a different profile as was suggested previously.

Comment 6

[Gingerbread Man]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150429135941

Steps to reproduce:
1. In about:config, set browser.search.showOneOffButtons to false.
2. In about:config, set browser.preferences.inContent to true (already the default in Firefox 38 and later).
3. Restart Firefox.
4. Open the Options/Preferences tab.
5. Click the Search category on the left.

Actual results:
Blank Default Search Engine drop-down menu.
Disabled Provide Search Suggestions checkbox.
Blank One-click Search Engines list.
Non-functional Restore Default Search Engines button.

(In reply to Fanolian from comment #2)
> This can be caused by disabling one-click searches by setting
> browser.search.showOneOffButtons to false.

Thank you for tracking this down.

(In reply to Skyler Sully from comment #5)
> Turns out that this fixed the problem. However, I never disabled that config
> value, but it was indeed set to false (user set).  I'm not sure if one of my
> plugins was responsible, but I need to do some additional testing as to how
> this happened.

I installed Classic Theme Restorer 1.3.2beta1 in Firefox 38, and it didn't touch either browser.search.showOneOffButtons or browser.preferences.inContent. So it — the latest version at least — doesn't break this functionality by default, though users can break it manually from the extension's preferences, Advanced category.

Comment 7

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 8

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

This regressed with bug 1012223. A patch for bug 1119250 would be large enough that I would prefer not to uplift it.

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/273580797d9b

Comment 10

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Comment on attachment 8601435 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

Not sure which approval flags are actually needed here. I think we want to get this low risk fix into 38.0.5, 39 and possibly also 38.1esr, as I would expect some corporate users to be more resistant to change, and so to be more likely to have flipped that pref.

Approval Request Comment
[Feature/regressing bug #]: regression caused by bug 1012223
[User impact if declined]: when browser.search.showOneOffButtons is false, a broken preference pane will be visible until it is selected.
[Describe test coverage new/current, TreeHerder]: QA will verify
[Risks and why]: low risk
[String/UUID change made/needed]: none.

Comment 11

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/273580797d9b

Comment 12

[Marco Mucci [:MarcoM]]

Hi Florian, can you provide a point value.

Comment 13

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop Test Engineering]

Verified fixed on Windows 7 64bit, Ubuntu 13.10 32bit and Mac OSX 10.9.5 using latest Nightly 40.0a1 (buildID: 20150508030204).

Comment 14

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Comment on attachment 8601435 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

Let's take it for 38.0.5 & 38.1.0esr.

Comment 15

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/b9270d836355

Comment 16

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/855c88138927

Comment 17

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr38/rev/2bbe0a6427f5

Comment 18

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop Test Engineering]

Verified fixed on Windows 7 64bit, Ubuntu 13.10 32bit and Mac OSX 10.9.5 using Firefox 38.0.5 Beta 1 (buildID: 20150511143336).

Comment 19

[Jefferson]

A workaround for Firefox 38.0 users is to load the "old" Manage Search Engines dialog in a tab using:

chrome://browser/content/search/engineManager.xul

Comment 21

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop Test Engineering]

Verified fixed on Firefox 39 Beta 1 (buildID: 20150523155636).