202269 - when choosing to Block Popup Windows the option does not stay checked

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Eric Fehrenbacher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030411 Phoenix/0.5+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030411 Phoenix/0.5+

Open the options and choose the Web Preferences tab. Then select to Block Popup
Windows. Close browser. Reopen and the option is now unchecked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the options dialog
2.Choose the Web Preferences tab
3.Check Block Popup Windows
4.Close browser
5.Reopen browser

Actual Results:  
The checkbox is empty and popups are not blocked.

Expected Results:  
Kept the box checked so that popups ARE blocked.

Comment 1

[noririty]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198941 ***

Comment 2

[Sébastien Delahaye]

It's a different problem (or bug 198941 should be reopened, but it currently
doesn't fix this one).
I don't have the resources now to test if it was caused by Michiel's initial
checkins, so I'm not changing the status of the bug. If it was caused by
Michiel's checkins, please reopen the other bug, noririty, and describe this
very bug in a comment.
If not, reopen this one.

Comment 3

[noririty]

Sorry, it is nothing to do with bug 198941.

Reporter:
Could you try with a new profile?
I suspect this must be cause by user.js

Comment 4

[Eric Fehrenbacher]

I don't think it is a user.js problem. At least not one that I can remedy from a
users prospective.

I removed pref.js and it's pref.bak, then I added user.js with only the
following line in it.

user_pref("privacy.popups.policy", 2);

When I restart the browser it makes the pref.js file. When I close it it fills
up the pref.js from user.js and the privacy attribute gets copied over. But it
doesn't hold. It doesn't matter if I remove the user.js altogether and follow
the above procedure it still doesn't hold the checkbox value.

Comment 5

[Erik]

Eric, do you still see this problem in recent builds of Firebird together with a
fresh profile?

Comment 6

[Eric Fehrenbacher]

I am now using :
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030429 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6
and I am still having the same problem. The popup window option does not hold
its checked value.

Comment 7

[noririty]

privacy.popups.policy seems to be no longer used.
And no one could reproduce.

-> WFM

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

Comment 9

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified worksforme 2004-01-10

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change