226382 - Settings can't be changed in the Downloads section of Tools, Options.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225958

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Andrew Benton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031120 Firebird/0.7+ (persist,gtk2+xft)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031120 Firebird/0.7+ (persist,gtk2+xft)

I used to be able to change what Firebird did with downloads but now when I go
to Tools> Options> Downloads, the panel is blank and I can't change what
Firebird does with a file - I have to delete my profile and make the right
choice the first time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download something
2.Goto Tools> Options> Downloads
3.It's blank

Actual Results:  
Settings can not be changed in the Downloads section of Tools, Options.

Expected Results:  
"Settings can be changed in the Downloads section of Tools, Options." says
Firebird. 

I get this on Windows XP with the current (16th of Nov) nightly and on Linux
with my own build.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a dup of a known firebird issue.

And it's totally misfiled...

Comment 2

[Justin Kremer]

Where is this supposed dupe?  I just searched for "download settings" and
"download options" - only found this post that regards the same issue I'm
having.  Apparently something needs to looked at with the Bugzilla query - it
would probably eliminate a lot of dupe posts.

I'm having this same issue.  This is what I'm seeing in the Javascript console
when attempting to change the Downloads options
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument
(NULL value cannot be used for a C++ reference type) arg 0
[nsISupports.QueryInterface]"  nsresult: "0x8057000b
(NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS_NULL_REF)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/helperApps.js :: HelperApps :: line 59" 
data: no]

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** Bug 226532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225958 ***

Comment 5

[Justin Kremer]

This issue appears to be occuring only with the Installer version.  Tested using
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031124
Firebird/0.7+