358264 - The Use Current Page text disappears completely leaving a grayed out empty button in Preferences when no page is open

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Soren Pearson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

When a website is open, the Use Current Page text is displayed in the Preferences Main tab. When you close all open Firefox windows and reopen preferences and click on the Main tab, the Use Current Page text is gone, leaving a grayed out empty button with no text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox version 2 and close the current page that is open
2. Go to the Firefox menu and come down to Preferences
3. Click the Main tab and see if the Use Current Page text is gone leaving a grayed out empty button
Actual Results:  
The Use Current Page text disappears leaving a grayed out empty button with no text. 

Expected Results:  
The Use Current Page text button in Firefox 2 preferences should show up grayed out.

This bug was produced with no theme or extensions installed. The bug still occurs when using the default theme.

computer configuration: iMac G5, 2.0 GHz, 1GB RAM, Mac OS 10.4.8

Comment 1

[Soren Pearson]

Attachment: Screenshot of Firefox 2 perferences displaying grayed out button with no text

Comment 2

[Soren Pearson]

Attachment: Screenshot of Firefox 2 perferences displaying active button with text when a page is open

Comment 3

[Jake Olefsky]

Its clear that disabling the button is the correct behavior, but it should probably be disabled in a way that still shows what the button could have done if you had a window open.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Attachment: Fix v.1

Comment 5

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Comment on attachment 246001 [details] [diff] [review]
Fix v.1

r=mano

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

browser/components/preferences/main.js 1.7

Comment 7

[Soren Pearson]

How does one apply the patch?

What is the path?

Thanks.