1205753 - Add-ons and developer tools missing from Tools menu

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris More [:cmore]]

From time to time, I notice that my add-ons and built-in devtools are missing from the Firefox Tools menu. This has been happening for a number of releases and I am currently running Firefox 40.0.3 release channel on OSX. 

I have a number of add-ons that add items to the Tools menu and they will all be missing including some of the built-in devtools. If I restart Firefox, they all come back. I haven't found a pattern to when they disappear.

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Attachment: Add-ons missing and partial devtools in Tools menu

Comment 2

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Attachment: Add-ons that I have installed

Comment 3

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Attachment: Tools menu looking fine after restarting Firefox

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Once they disappear, do they stay gone for the rest of your session?

Devtools does some dynamic modification of that menu, eg browser/devtools/framework/gDevTools.jsm _addToolToWindows(), I suppose it's possible something in there can break. Anything in your Browser Console when when happens?

More distantly it could be a Cocoa widget bug, but I think that's fairly unlikely. What version of OS X are you on?

Comment 5

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to Justin Dolske [:Dolske] from comment #4)
> Once they disappear, do they stay gone for the rest of your session?

Yeah, that's what it seems like. I couldn't get them to come back until I restart Firefox.

> 
> Devtools does some dynamic modification of that menu, eg
> browser/devtools/framework/gDevTools.jsm _addToolToWindows(), I suppose it's
> possible something in there can break. Anything in your Browser Console when
> when happens?

It's just weird that devtools has less things and then all of my add-ons that add Tools menu are gone. I used my user agent switcher all the time and that also disappears too.

I can check the console the next time it happens.

> 
> More distantly it could be a Cocoa widget bug, but I think that's fairly
> unlikely. What version of OS X are you on?

My OS X is 10.10.4

Comment 6

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

I believe that this isn't a problem anymore, closing.

Feel free to reopen if you can still see the issue..

Honza