Firefox 3b4 | Fails setting desktop background on Gnome.

Bug #210580 reported by Martianz
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
Mozilla Bugs

Bug Description

1. Right click on an image to set as desktop background.
2. Position: Stretch, Color: default (pale gray).
3. No results. All like at the beginning

OS: Ubuntu 8.04 beta
Firefox: 3 beta 4
Gnome: 2.22.0 - Compilation date: 20080328

If i can provide more data, just say me how. I'm a newbie reporting bugs.

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panther (botos-b) wrote :

I also have the same problem in Ubuntu 8.04 (x86_64) (!!!NOT BETA!!!).
I am using a newer version of Ubuntu and Firefox but seems the bug is still not fixed.
Firefox version: [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041515 Firefox/3.0b5].

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panther (botos-b) wrote :

I have tried to reproduce this bug under Firefox 2.0.0.14 [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080418 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/2.0.0.14] without any success.
This bug seems to be Firefox 3.0b specific.

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Can you please go to help>about and tell me what is in there as per version of firefox and xulrunner. We have firefox b5 in repos in Hardy and have for a little while couple of weeks or so. can you both please provide links to pictures you are trying to add so i can test this here?

Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
status: New → Incomplete
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panther (botos-b) wrote :

Firefox version: 3.0b5

xulrunner version: 1.9b5
The output of the "xulrunner --version" command is: "Mozilla XULRunner 1.9b5 - 2008041515"

I also took a screenshot of my "Help -> About Mozilla Firefox" window, which is attached to this comment.

Link to pictures:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/01558_aucklandharbourbridge_1280x800.jpg
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/01557_gatespasssaguaro_1280x800.jpg
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/downloads/01555_theoldlonelytree_1280x800.jpg

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 210580] Re: Firefox 3b4 | Fails setting desktop background on Gnome.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:21:26AM -0000, panther wrote:
> I have tried to reproduce this bug under Firefox 2.0.0.14 [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080418 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/2.0.0.14] without any success.
> This bug seems to be Firefox 3.0b specific.
>

can you please update the bug on next firefox update?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

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Tyler Rusk (tdrusk) wrote :

I am running the most recent Firefox that Ubuntu has released. I can confirm this error.

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panther (botos-b) wrote :

Same problem with the latest Firefox release (RC1).
[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052113 Firefox/3.0]

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:13:38PM -0000, Tyler Rusk wrote:
> I am running the most recent Firefox that Ubuntu has released. I can
> confirm this error.
>

Do you have firefox-gnome-support installed?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

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Tyler Rusk (tdrusk) wrote :

Alexander:

Yes I do.

I just did a fresh install and it still doesn't work.

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Nick Russell (thatnick) wrote :

Still occurs in final.

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RuleMaker (inthecode14) wrote :

Just to confirm this bug on 8.10 interpid & firefox 3.08.

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