246940 - Security information missing from Page Info dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 244479

(Firefox :: Page Info Window, defect)

Description

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Since upgrading to Firefox 0.9, there is no way to get access to the X.509
certificate chain for an SSL/TLS connection as the Secutity information button
is just missing from the Page Info dialog. There also does not seem to be any
way to get this information through an alternative access path.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access an HTTPS URL
2. Select <Context Menu> -> View Page Info
Actual Results:  
The Security button is gone...

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

worksforme linux firefox 0.9. I see the Security tab in the Page Info dialog,
and a View button in it for viewing cert info on a https site.

Comment 2

[Michael Lefevre]

confirming - seems to be missing. windows installer build of 0.9.

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

also confirmed by someone else on IRC.

it seems that Help is also missing, for these people.

Comment 4

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel]

While this is always reproducible for my primary Firefox installation, a new
install on a "clean" Windows XP system did show the security tab. I am currently
experimenting with a new profile to find out if some migrated settings from FF
0.8 are causing this...

Regarding the missing help: I can confirm this, my "Help" menu only shows
"Release notes" and "About".

Comment 5

[Bill Mason]

(In reply to comment #3)
> also confirmed by someone else on IRC.
> 
> it seems that Help is also missing, for these people.

Help is supposed to be fixed in bug 246769.

Comment 6

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel]

Not sure what went wrong during the original installation, but complete
re-install (while keeping the old profile) solved the problem for me...

Comment 7

[Steffen Wilberg]

Maybe a dupe of bug 246940. Are you missing Menu Help->Help Contents as well?

Comment 8

[psellhorst]

I have had the same problem (bug 245714) with the June 5th build.
(I too remember that some items in the Help menu were missing,
although help was allegedly already included by that time.)
Installing the next day's build fixed it.

Comment 9

[Thilo-Alexander Ginkel]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Not sure what went wrong during the original installation, but complete
> re-install (while keeping the old profile) solved the problem for me...

I've got some additional details:

While re-installing at first seemed to solve the issue, it re-appeared after
restarting Firefox.

However, if I delete chrome/chrome.rdf afterwards, the problem seems to go away
permanently. Firefox creates a new chrome/chrome.rdf file during the next
startup as well as the chrome/overlayinfo/* directory structure, which it did
not initially have after the installation completed.

Comment 10

[Steffen Wilberg]

Marking as duplicate of bug 244479, see comment 8, comment 9, and bug 244479
comment 27.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244479 ***