259576 - Popup blocker defaults back to "on" after restart of Firefox, even if turned off

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Darnell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

FireFox's pop-up blocker always defaults back to being on after turning it off
and restarting Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. Go to Tools/Options/Web Features and uncheck "Block Popup Windows" and click
"OK".
3. Close Firefox.
4. Start Firefox again and look at the setting for popup blocking.  The setting
has the value checked although it was turned off.  The popup blocker is on again
after restart.

Actual Results:  
Popup blocker is still running although previously turned off.

Expected Results:  
Popup blocker should remain off and still be turned off after restarting Firefox.

Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

wfm on linux fedora core 1

Comment 2

[Kevin Goodsell]

WFM.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Extensions:

Adblock v.5 d2 * nightly 39
User Agent Switcher 0.6
All-in-One Gestures 0.12.4

Reporter: Perhaps you have a buggy extension? Have you tried a clean install
with a new profile?

Comment 3

[Darnell]

I did do an uninstall of 0.9.3 (deleted program file folder also), then
installed PR1, but I'm still using the same profile.

The extensions I have are:
IEView 0.81 (Disabled)
DisctionarySearch 0.6.3
Sage 1.2.2
googlebar 0.9.0.16 (Disabled)
Single Window 1.4
PRGoogleBar 0.9.0.24

I uninstalled googlebar 0.9.0.16 and still have the problem but have not tried
removing other extensions or using a fresh new profile.  

Comment 4

[Darnell]

OK, I just did a full uninstall and removed all my old profile data from
"Documents and Settings" in Windows.  Did a reinstall of Firefox and used a
totally new profile.  I am not having this problem any more.

Thank you for the help Kevin.

Comment 5

[Darnell]

I've tracked the cause of this problem down to a conflict with the extension
"Single Window 1.4".  After my reinstall and seeing things were OK I started
installing extensions again.  And I noticed I was again having the problem again
with the Popup Blocker.  So I started removing extensions one by one and
testing.  Removing "Single Window 1.4" resolved the problem.

Comment 6

[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