602723 - about:config loads as blank white page, or part-white/part-gray, and isn't functional

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

This is on a galaxy s.  Possibly relevant things I did were

 (1) Install beta 1
 (2) Open about:config; works fine
 (3) Enable web console
 (4) Restart (sigh)
 (5) Open about:config; works fine
 (6) Enable sync Debug logging
 (7) Restart
 (8) ... bunch of other stuff ...
 (9) Open about:config; blank page, broken
 (10) Web content and other about: pages work fine

Reloads, orientation changes, restarts didn't fix about:config.  I modified prefs.js to revert the two prefs I'd modified to default, didn't fix it.

These aren't necessarily STR because I don't this bug is high priority, so I didn't try again.  Just getting it on the record.

Comment 1

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

Very weird ... got the same problem on a fresh install of the 10/6 nightly, without any non-default prefs.  I enabled the web console and restarted, then saw

error: docShell: Not Remotable

in the console.  I closed the tab, then used the tab restore button, and about:config loaded with no problems.

Comment 2

[ahoza]

about: pages load as blank pages in a new tab with latest nightly builds. Tested with:

Nokia N900, buildID: Mozilla/5.0 (Maemo; Linux armv7l;rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101007 Firefox/4.08pre Fennec/4.0b2pre
Motorola Droid 2 and HTC Desire A8181, buildID: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l;rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101007 Firefox/4.08pre Fennec/4.0b2pre

Steps: 

1. Start Fennec
2. Open a second tab and try to access any about: page
3. Pan right and select first tab.
4. Select second tab

Results:
With step 2, page is blank
With step 3, second tab's thumbnail looks OK
With step 4, content is displayed in the second tab

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

works for blassey.  marking wfm

Comment 4

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

Still broken for me as of yesterday.

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

cjones, nightly or beta2?

Comment 6

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

Local build approximately corresponding to yesterday's nightly.

Comment 7

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Same STR?

Comment 8

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

Yes, I can repro following steps in comment 2.

Comment 9

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

moving out to final.

Comment 12

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Seems to be working ok now. Other bugs in about:config, but this seems ok.