297841 - nsIShellService fails on non Gnome systems

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050614 Firefox/1.0+

Open the preferences panel and select Check now in the general tab. You will see
this error message:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult:
"0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://browser/content/preferences/general.js :: anonymous :: line 111"  data: no]

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Ok, getService() fails during init() of nsIShellService on non Gnome systems
(here KDE). The implementation for Gnome was done in bug 242254. I know that
only Gnome is supported. So other desktop managers shouldn't support this service.

Currently HAVE_SHELL_SERVICE is defined in
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/browser/components/preferences/Makefile.in#47
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/browser/base/Makefile.in#56

On both places it should be disabled.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

About KDE, is there any chance to see this fixed? KDE is as popular as Gnome and is available in most (all?) distros.

Comment 3

[Alexander Sack]

see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383348#c8