649933 - some context menu items (e.g. "Save image as") don't work on about:home (Firefox home page)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[AndreiD[QA]]

Build ID: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110413 Firefox/5.0a2

Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox and go to the Firefox Start page (about:home)
2. Click right on the Firefox logo
3. Check the contextual menu options.

Actual results:
3. All options are visible whether they are available or not (example: "view image", "copy image" et cetera)

Expected results:
3. If an option is not available it should be grayed out from the menu.


*Note: IMO It applies for all build since the release of the new FFx homepage
CCing lforrest who I think is in charge of about:home, and faaborg for UX
input. Thanks!

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Using certain items throws an exception:

Load of chrome://branding/content/about-logo.png from about:home denied.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The branding package is not contentAccessible, IIRC. I don't think we want to change that, and I also don't think this is worth a workaround in the context menu code, so I think this is probably WONTFIX.

Comment 4

[AndreiD[QA]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The branding package is not contentAccessible, IIRC. I don't think we want
> to change that, and I also don't think this is worth a workaround in the
> context menu code, so I think this is probably WONTFIX.

The issue is still visible on Firefox 8 (currently Nightly), but setting this as wontfix, see comment 2. If at one point in the future will be a fix for this please consider reopening this bug. Thanks