226147 - Click on icon in upper right corner does nothing

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Christopher Stone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031110 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031110 Firebird/0.7

After using firebird for a couple of days, Ive noticed that clicking on the icon
in the upper right hand corner no longer sends me to the mozilla firebird home page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click on upper right hand corner icon

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Send me to mozilla firebird homepage

Comment 1

[Christopher Stone]

The only things I can think of which might have caused this to start happening,
is going to the customize toolbar dialog, and possibly installing the GoUp
addon.  These are the only things I have done recently which may have caused
this error to show up.

Comment 2

[Wayne Woods]

This might be a Linux-specific problem, but I can't test it. It certainly works
in Windows. Hopefully someone else can check it out.

Christopher, could you please try finding your user profile (I'm not sure where
it's kept in Linux) and temporarily remove it? If you load the browser with a
fresh profile, will it still crash?

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

No problems with my 2003-11-18 nightly build on WinXP.
Please try a current nightly with a fresh profile without any additional themes
and extensions.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

type about:config into the location bar, then type throbber into the filter line.
browser.throbber.url should show http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
Maybe an extension has put something own over there, or just deleted the URL.

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Christopher, do you still see this bug with a current nightly build?

Comment 6

[PikeUK]

This is often due to corrupted chrome.rdf (for example Bug 230558) usually when
this happens "Add engines..." and "Web Search for" also fail since Firefox can
no longer access the relevant .properties file.

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

No response from reporter in over seven weeks.
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