240810 - Firebird's old Download Manager displays in Firefox and it is impossible to close it.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Maquet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: Firefox 0.8 

I noticed this bug while upgrading from Firebird (0.7) to Firefox (0.8) 
Under Firebird, I downloaded Firefox, thus using the download manager (the 
left sidebar, CTRL-E). I closed Firebird (leaving the download manager 
active), and installed Firefox. I then launched Firefox. 
At first, I was really impressed, my prefs were conserved ! That's a nice 
feature. But then I noticed that the download manager was still there (as a 
side-bar). I hit CTRL-E, and a brand new download manager shows up, in a cool 
window. Strange enough, the sidebar stays. I want to close it by clicking on 
the 'cross' button but that does not work. In fact, the only way to get rid of 
the sidebar is to  
1. close Firefox and relaunch Firebird 
2. close the 'sidebar' download manager 
3. close Firebird and relaunch Firefox 
4. the sidebar's gone ! 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.That's 
2.already 
3.said 
 
Actual Results:  
Thank 

Expected Results:  
you 

for this wonderful browser. 
This is really a minor bug, but still, I'm sure it could annoy some people 
enough to spend some time fixing it ;)

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

actually, since any old profiles will be migrated to a new directory, which
won't include XUL.mfl (which retains this data) this is already not an issue for
0.9 and future versions.

another workaround would be to close Firefox with a different sidebar open, then
reopen.

In any case, can't replicate on current nightlies, resolving WORKSFORME