939989 - foxclocks doesn't work with Australis

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I used to have both of it in my add-on bar at the bottom. Now it doesn't show up in the top toolbar, and when I add it there it does nothing.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxclocks/ I assume?

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Yep!

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

If I install it in a new profile, I get a blank icon in the customization palette (but with a "Foxclocks" text label), dragging it to the navbar makes it simply disappear (with no space-adjustment feedback when dropping, we probably think it's zero-width?). Same thing happens when dragging it to the menu panel. :(

The AMO screenshots indicate this addon can be both a wide-widget (which doesn't work well, UI wise, given the lack of a wide addon-bar), but also an icon mode (which would look better with Australis). Not sure how to get to its options dialog, the button in the addon-manager doesn't seem to bring up that dialog.

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I am a wizard.

I will now make you wizards, too, by providing magic steps to fix this problem.

1. Open about:config
2. Filter for "foxclocks"
3. Doubleclick the "extensions.foxclocks.clock.containertype" preference. Set it to: "fc-clock-containertype-toolbar". (without the quotes, obviously)

Behold as the item magically appears.

You can now rightclick the widget to be able to customize it in a more wizard-friendly way than going code-spelunking on mxr for 30 minutes and messing with about:addons.

Optional last steps:

(a) wonder why there's no way to access the *actual* options rather than just the clock configuration, because both "Preferences" in the Addon Manager and "Foxclocks" in the tools menu just let you configure the timezones shown.

(b) notice that this add-on author is quite aware of how wide widgets aren't the easiest to manage, and provides an option to have only a small icon with a nice tooltip, rather than a wide assortment of clocks.

(Please reopen if you have issues with the toolbaritem variant of the add-on)