300814 - Tracking bug for 1.0.5 extension problems

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Filed at the request of mconnor.

Bug 300794 : Middle Click on Link problems - "Download Sort 2.5.0"
             "Single Window" - broken

Bug 300740: Blank page on startup (cause unknown - need further info)

Bug 300706: Firefox fails to open (cause unknown - need further info)

Bug 300696: New window command broken (cause unknown)

Bug 300651: Menus problem (cause unknown, new profile resolved the problem)

Bug 300615: css styles problem, clean install resolved the problem (not sure if
this is relevant)

Bug 300565: Middle click and tab problems - "tabbrowser extensions" problem
fixed with an upgrade of the extension.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Roboform as reported here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=292107
and in bug 256418

Comment 2

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=291937&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=15http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=291937&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=15http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=291937&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=15

Mentions "BookmarksHome" causing firefox 1.0. to not start:
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Anonymous wrote:
it only happens when my homepage is set to the location for the BookmarksHome
extension.
[...] I've used Google start page and about:blank, and both allow me to start
Firefox normally.

You're the man!
If your Firefox 1.0.5 won't start and you previously installed BookmarksHome, then:
- Uninstall Firefox 1.0.5
- Install Firefox 1.0.4
- Remove chrome://bookmarkshome/content/bookmarksHome.html from Tools -> Options
-> Home Page and insert about:blank
- Uninstall Firefox 1.0.4
- Install Firefox 1.0.5
Everything now works fine!
I'll wait for a BookmarksHome version working on Fx 1.0.5.
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Comment 3

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=292230
Mentions extreme slow down with firefox 1.0.5 and sessionsaver it is unclear if
this is a new issue with 1.0.5 or the same problem would be present with 1.0.4
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I installed SessionSaver over Firefox 1.0.5 and I have a massive Firefox
slowdown. Every time I click on a different tab, or switch to a different
window, Firefox CPU usage spikes up to 40-50% for about 5-10 seconds (just
enough to be irritating). It makes using the Web painful with Firefox painful. I
never used SessionSaver until yesterday so I'm not sure if it's an
imcompatibility between 1.0.5 and SessionSaver or what.
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Comment 4

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=291771
JPEG files not loading in browser when clicked - might be extension related

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=292081
"bookmarks toolbar doesn't work, it's there but empty" says has tried "removing
extensions, themes, plugins" but still possibly extension related

Nothing else on Mozillazine - Mozilla Firefox Support forums that seems significant

Comment 5

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Bug 300794 : Middle Click on Link problems - "Download Sort 2.5.0"

From bug 300794 comment 4 Download Sort 2.5.2 (released in May?) is ok.

Comment 6

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Bug 300852 offers some technical details as to why some extension maybe having
problems:
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This is what I do :
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var sb = document.getElementById("searchbar");
sb.addEventListener("input", function() { alert('it works'); }, false, true);	
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This code throws this exception :
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Error: [Exception... "'JavaScript component threw a null value as an exception'
when calling method: [nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]" nsresult: "0x8057001d
(NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_NULL)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]
*****
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Comment 7

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Closing, seems to have outlived its usefullness.

For reference older versions of "Download sort" and "single window mode" are
known to cause tab related problems.