324728 - OK button does not do anything in Options menu

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[thisismyspiffyemail]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When I go into the Options menu, i can set my homepage and preferences but when i click the "OK" button, nothing happens. the preferences i set work until i close the browser window. when i open the browser again, everything is back to default settings.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to 'Options' menu in the 'tools' bar
2.change any preferences
3.click 'ok'

Actual Results:  
the window does not go away and the preferences are only saved until you close the browser

Expected Results:  
the 'options' menu should have closed out and the preferences should be saved until changed/set to default again

Comment 1

[Chris Blore]

I could not reproduce under Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060125 Firefox/1.6a1. Do you have any extensions installed as they might be causing this?

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This sounds like your profile folder is read-only.
Close Firefox, click Start > Run > type: %appdata%
Look for the folder Mozilla, rightclick and you'll find the option in the Properties window.

Comment 3

[Dasha Filippova]

I am experiencing the same problem. I think it has something to do with a recent Windows update I have installed.
I tried the solution posted above, but when I uncheck "Read-only" flag for the  Mozilla folder and reopen props, the "Read-only" flag is back on.
I have not installed any Firefox etensions. Since I got that problems, I have updated to the 2.0.0.1 version (from 1.5), but the problem persisted.

Comment 4

[Jim]

I have the same problem. Ant solutions?

Comment 5

[Dasha Filippova]

for me it went away somehow. maybe I restarted my machine? hm...

Comment 6

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

works for me in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070625 Minefield/3.0a6pre ID:2007062504 and Firefox 2.0.0.4 

Reporter, do you still see this reported problem in a latest release - Firefox 2.0.0.4 ? 

Jim, if you see this problem, please try to start Firefox in Safe Mode http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode because this problem could be caused by add-ons etc and see if you can reproduce this in Safe Mode.

Comment 7

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Reporter or anyone else, if you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2 please reopen this bug.
Closing as WORKSFORME.