246354 - preferences dialog won't close with OK (after changing homepage)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect, P2)

Description

[Will Robinson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

I'm using Firefox 0.9RC.  When I go to Edit -> Preferences and then enter a URL
into the (currently empty) Home Page text box, the dialog then won't close when
I press OK.  Pressing cancel will close the dialog, as will closing the window
directly by clicking on the X.  However, if I do either of these things my
homepage setting is not actually changed.

If I open the preferences dialog and don't change anything, I can click OK to
close.  If I change something else, like how many days my history should be
retained, I can click OK to close.  Everything works in these cases.  It looks
specific to changing the homepage setting.  Weird.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Edit -> Preferences
2. Enter a valid URL into the Home Page text field.
3. Click OK.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
My new homepage preference should have been applied, and the preference dialog
should have closed.

Comment 1

[Will Robinson]

I was able to set my homepage by manually editing prefs.js in
.mozilla/firefox/default.g1y.  (It was set to '' before I edited it).  Should
still fix the GUI, though. :)

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Is the home button off the toolbar?

Comment 3

[Will Robinson]

The home button is on the toolbar right where I'd expect it to be.

Comment 4

[u71076]

This is busted as described right out of the box. As a workaround, you can open the page(s) you want to 
set as your homepage and click the "Use Current Pages" button (instead of manually typing in the 
address). 

Comment 5

[Will Robinson]

Just confirming that I'm still experiencing this bug after upgrading to 0.9.

Comment 6

[Meik Kuhlmann]

I have got the same problem on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9. 

It also happens when you modify an existing entry manually.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 246986 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

seeing dupes, but unable to replicate this still.

Are there errors in the javascript console when this happens?

Comment 9

[Will Robinson]

Ooh, yes.  I didn't even know that console existed before you asked.  Here is
the error:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80570018 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570018
(NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_IID)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://browser/content/pref/pref-navigator.js :: onOK :: line 69"  data: no]

Comment 10

[Meik Kuhlmann]

I get the samme error in the javascript console.

I tried it on an other computer and was able to replicate the bug (using
different linux distributions and desktops / windowmanagers, i.e. SuSE 9.0,
Knoppix 3.4, KDE 3.1.4, Gnome 2.4, windowmaker, ...). The windows version of
firefox works as expected.

Comment 11

[Robin Monks]

WFM on FireFox 0.9.1 on WinXP.

Comment 12

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

We're getting reports of this problem sent to [e-mail], at least
two so far. Reopening.

Comment 13

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 246523 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 246842 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

No longer seeing this on linux firefox 0.9+ build 2004-07-21-11-0.9

Okay button works after manual entry of URL into homepage preference field.

Comment 16

[Vik Anand]

I am also experiencing this comment. I'm using Firefox 0.9 on Slackware 10
distribution in Gnome 2.6.1. After setting the homepage, I press OK and the
window won't close and save settings.

Comment 17

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

w4m using 2004-07-23-14-0.9 on linux fedora 2.

resolving as w4m, but pls do reopen if this is still an issue with a recent
build on another platform (or a recent trunk build).

Comment 18

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** Bug 254872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Chris Martin]

I'm getting this on a fresh install of Mandrake 10.0 Official (downloaded)
I've confirmed it in both KDE and Gnome, on kernel 2.4.25-2mdk and 2.6.3-7mdk
I've tried both the 9.1 and 9.3 official releases (with installer). All of the
above had this bug.

Interestingly enough, I never saw this problem on Fedora Core 1. I was using the
exact same 9.1 tarball with no problems. When 9.3 was released, I used a fedora
released rpm, still with no problems.

Comment 20

[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