467589 - Custom nav-bar settings ignored

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[wwp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111216 Remi/fc8 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111216 Remi/fc8 Firefox/3.0.4

Customizing nav-bar works OK for current window, but default nav-bar contents is used when opening another window or at next start-up.

My user's localstore.rdf shows:
..
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#nav-bar"
                   iconsize="large"
                   currentset="new-tab-button,unified-back-forward-button,back-button,forward-button,reload-button,stop-button,urlbar-container" />
..

The currentset line shows my customized bar items but it's even persistent over restart, but it seems simply ignored when creating the nav-bar of any new window.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Customize your navigation bar. Add or remove items. Close the dialog and see how your changed to the nav-bar are taken into account (good).
2. File/New Window, see how your changes to the nav-bar are ignored (bad).
3. Restart Firefox, see how your changes to the nav-bar are ignored (bad).

Actual Results:  
Custom nav-bar contents is ignored when creating a new window.

Expected Results:  
Custom nav-bar contents should be taken into account when creating new windows or at next restart.

Comment 1

[wwp]

Reproduced with Firefox 3.0 and 3.0.4, in Fedora 8 (ffx installed from remi repository).

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This works fine on Windows XP, with latest trunk and Firefox 3.0.4.

Comment 3

[wwp]

FYI, ~/.mozilla contents show correct ownership and rights.

FYI, problem was not present with Firefox 2 (up to 2.0.0.18) and Ffx3 has been installed as a replacement of Ffx2, keeping the same user dir.

Still FYI, it seems to be a generalized toolbar customization issue: if I add another toolbar, it will be shown in current window, but ignored when opening a new window or at next start-up.

Comment 4

[wwp]

OK, I have a better clue now: issue not reproducible w/ another user on the same machine. Sounds related to my ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/ contents. Now, knowing why and how to solve this, is another story!

Also see my comment to bug 462290: I cannot remove items from history list either, but it works fine w/ another user on the same machine (thus this sounds related).

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.