309042 - Cannot open Options dialog (sometimes)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Per Persson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Right now I cannot open the Options dialog. But the JavaScript console opens
fine, reading:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.openDialog]"  nsresult:
"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js :: openPreferences :: line 383" 
data: no]

Lines 382 and 383 in utilityOverlay.js read:
    openDialog("chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul",
               "Preferences", features, paneID);

Opening preferences.xul in a new tab works fine.

Reproducible: Sometimes




Installed extensions:
* Web Developer toolbar
* Menu Manipulator
* PHPkod (my own, derived from BBCode by Jed Browns)

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

disable Menu Manipulator (logical guess).
If that one is causing the problem you can use Menu Editor 1.2 instead which
works fine on FF1.4

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050914 Firefox/1.6a1
ID:2005091404

WFM. This is obviously not an issue in Firefox code, but rather something to do
with conflicting extensions you have installed.

Comment 3

[Per Persson]

It wasn't Menu Manipulator. It still happens when Firefox has been running for a
while (possibly when I have had a lot of tabs open). Neither the Options dialog
nor any web link that wants to open a new window is working.

Maybe I should have a clean install...

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of bug 309170?

Comment 5

[Per Persson]

Seems to be the same. The descriptions suits fine in my case.

Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Related to/duplicate of bug 309170?

Tricky,
in bug 309170 even running -safemode does not seem to help.
So I rather not see this one duped to it.

Comment 7

[Per Persson]

Not a duplicate? I'm quite certain it is the same bug.

When the problem arises for me, also normal links opening new windows stop
working, just like in #309170. Everything seems to work the same way in his and
my bugs.

So, I think this bug should be marked as verified.