1165676 - [Elementary Firefox theme] In-content preferences broken; cannot modify settings or switch categories

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[satyabratakranti]

Attachment: General tab from firefox preferences page

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150511103819

Steps to reproduce:

Open firefox preferences page (open preferences)
Try to edit/change any settings or try to navigate through tabs (search, content etc.).


Actual results:

Not able to navigate in between tabs in preferences page.
Also not able to modify any settings.
Opens with the default general tab and none of the available settings is modifiable.
Also not able to navigate any other tab (search, content etc.).
(Seems as if any mouse click is not working in preferences page)


Expected results:

Should be able to navigate within and across tabs.
Should be able to change preferences in general tab

Comment 1

[satyabratakranti]

Only occuring on my linux (elementary OS).

Comment 2

[Gingerbread Man]

Does this happen in a brand new profile?
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Does this happen when you do the following?
1. In the address bar, paste the following, then press Enter:
about:config?filter=browser.preferences.inContent
2. To bypass the warning, press the big button labeled “I'll be careful, I promise!”.
3. In the search results, double-click “browser.preferences.inContent” to set its value to “false”.

Comment 3

[satyabratakranti]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #2)
> Does this happen in a brand new profile?
> https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-
> profiles
> 
> Does this happen when you do the following?
> 1. In the address bar, paste the following, then press Enter:
> about:config?filter=browser.preferences.inContent
> 2. To bypass the warning, press the big button labeled “I'll be careful, I
> promise!”.
> 3. In the search results, double-click “browser.preferences.inContent” to
> set its value to “false”.

1. Yes, it works for a new profile.
2. Yes, By setting browser.preferences.inContent=false, I'm able to change the preferences, but preferences open in a new window as it was happening on previous firefox versions. But, the same issues remain while accessing page "about:preferences".

Comment 4

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to satyabratakranti from comment #3)
> 1. Yes, it works for a new profile.

Then chances are one of your add-ons is to blame. Can you track down which one and report back?
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems

Comment 5

[satyabratakranti]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #4)
> (In reply to satyabratakranti from comment #3)
> > 1. Yes, it works for a new profile.
> 
> Then chances are one of your add-ons is to blame. Can you track down which
> one and report back?
> https://support.mozilla.org/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems

Caught the culprit - An theme add-on
URL - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/elementary-firefox/?src=api

Thanks for helping out.

Comment 6

[Gingerbread Man]

You're welcome. Thank you for the update.


I see no public contact information for this add-on. Jorge, can you notify the author through AMO?

Comment 7

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

I contacted the developer through AMO and will mark the theme as incompatible with 38 and above.

Comment 8

[Andy McKay]

With WebExtensions being the only valid way of doing extensions in Firefox 57, I don't think this bug is still relevant.