292705 - After clicking "Edit Options" in a notice bar, the Preferences window reopens after pressing OK

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Joona Palaste]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I just installed the Wikipedia extension mentioned in Bug #292635. This showed a
new bug.
If you have forbidden web sites from installing software, trying to install
Mozilla extensions shows a notice bar at the top of the page:
"Software installation is currently turned off. Choose Edit Options to specify."
followed by a button saying "Edit Options".
Now when I click on this button, I get the Mozilla Firefox Preferences window. I
then allow web sites to install software, and press OK. The Preferences window
closes, but instantly reopens, at a slightly different place. Pressing OK again
usually gets rid of it, but sometimes it reopens two or three times.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Forbid software installation.
2. Try to install a Mozilla extension.
3. Press "Edit Options".
4. Allow software installation in the resulting window.
5. Press "OK".

Actual Results:  
The Preferences window closed and instantly reopened.

Expected Results:  
The Preferences window should have stayed closed.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

*** Bug 296890 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Chris Zubak-Skees]

I've had the same bug. It seems as if the button opens one Options window for every open browser window.

(Edited) Steps to Reproduce:
1. Forbid software installation.
2. Open multiple browser windows.
2. Try to install an extension.
3. Click "Edit Options..."
5. Click "OK" or "Cancel."

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Can anybody reproduce this with the latest build of Firefox 2 or 3?

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

Can't reproduce with steps given. works for me