209503 - (Firebird equivalent) about:config enhancement - filtering/searching preferences

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[shadytrees]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030614 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030614 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

RFE: A Firebird equivalent of Bug 207840 which allows filtering and searching
withing the about:config page. Bug says supposed to work on Firebird but
currently doesn't with the 6-14 build.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Warner Young]

To be precise, the 6-15 build has a "Filter" field, but typing things into it
seems to have no effect.

Comment 2

[Tim]

As I said in a comment in the bug this was spawned from, it is probably because
Firebird still (presumably) uses an attribute named callback whereas Mozilla now
uses oncommand to fire change events from the search text box.

Comment 3

[Erik]

*** Bug 210666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Tsukasa Maruyama]

Attachment: patch

I use 'callback' event handler. Although Moz-firebird has 'callback',
Mozilla-suite does not have. So, I left oncommand handler. It seems that it is
working well both Moz-Firebird and Mozilla-suite.

Comment 5

[noririty]

Mozilla Firebird != Mozilla Seamonkey

Don't port all Mozilla new features to Firebird.
You can use more powerful about:config feature by extension.
http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html#Preferential

I'll mark as WONTFIX.  And maybe examine to hide quick search bar.

Comment 6

[Vedran Miletic]

This extension looks like a hack to me.

Hacks are evil.

Don't make this wontfix.

Comment 7

[Steffen Wilberg]

We should fix this because:
1. This bug has got 25 votes so far.
2. You need about:config a lot more in Firebird than in Seamonkey becuase of the
stipped down options panel.
3. About:config is hidden anyway so it doesn't interfere with Firebird's tidy UI.
4. The feature and the UI are implemented anyway, we just need to make them work.

Comment 8

[noririty]

OK, withdraw my comment#5.

Comment 9

[shadytrees]

Can we check in the patch? Or do we need to fix something greater than this?

Comment 10

[noririty]

<note>
Mozilla Firebird
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/toolkit/content/widgets/textbox.xml#104

Mozilla Seamonkey
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/global/resources/content/bindings/textbox.xml#112
</note>

Comment 11

[KENZ (Kenji Irie)]

Attachment: patch to override config.xul by mozilla/toolkit version.

Override chrome://global/content/config.xul by mozilla/toolkit version's
config.xul. Change from original file is replacing "oncommand" to "callback" of
timed-textbox only.

Comment 12

[noririty]

Comment on attachment 128581 [details] [diff] [review]
patch to override config.xul by mozilla/toolkit version.

r=me

Comment 13

[noririty]

checked in

Comment 14

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

Comment 15

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Verified

Comment 16

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 215811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[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