294938 - opening a second tab breaks about:config

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPConnect, defect)

Description

[Kevin Brosnan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520 Firefox/1.0+

about:config values are not changing if a second tab in the window is opened

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a link in a tab
2. type about:config in the address bar
3. try to modify a value
4. JavaScript console shows
Error: ModifySelected is not defined
Source File: about:config Line: 1

Actual Results:  
Unable to modify any values in about:config

Expected Results:  
able to modify any values in about:config

about:config works if it is the first uri that you type into the address bar.

Comment 1

[David Bradley]

How is this xpconnect? Tried this in 1.0.4 and it works. I'll have to give it a
try in a trunk build

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052009

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This seems to be fixed by the "Fix parenting" patch on bug 281988

Comment 4

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

WORKSFORME now that the patch bz mentioned has landed.  But we know what fixed
it, so marking FIXED.

/be