Customized toolbars temporarily reset after changing extensions

[Trent McPheron]

Binary package hint: firefox

I have the extension Tiny Menu, which condenses the menu into one little button, and I've moved all my navigation buttons up onto the menu bar with it, and hid the navigation toolbar. It's nice and compact.

But whenever I install, remove, enable, or disable an extension, my navigation buttons vanish after restarting Firefox. If I unhide the navigation toolbar, all the buttons have moved back onto it. After I restart again, everything is back where it's supposed to be.

Using Ubuntu Intrepid, and Firefox 3.0.4. This has happened for as long as I can remember on Firefox 3.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Move all of your controls--the buttons, location bar, search bar, the spinny thing--onto the menu bar.
2. Hide the navigation toolbar.
3. Install, remove, enable, or disable an extension.
4. Restart firefox; find that your controls have vanished. Or rather, that they've moved back onto the hidden navigation toolbar.
5. Restart again. Customized toolbar is now restored.

Expected result:
Everything stays where it is, regardless of what I do with extensions.

Actual result:
Well, see above.

[Pete Bartel (pbartel)]

I get the same behaviour, but it's not limited to "Tiny Menu" (which I don't use). All I do is customise my toolbars by:
 * move address bar to same line as menu
 * move bookmarks toolbar items to same line as search box
 * add printer icon next to home icon

Then whenever, I install/remove/enable/disable/update an extension, the toolbars reset themselves to defaults the next time I start firefox. I have to then do my 3 customisations again.

I'm using Firefox 3.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.10.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Many bad Firefox behaviors are in fact caused by one of the many third-party 'themes', 'extensions' and 'plugins'. These will go away with a new profile - that is, when Firefox is restored to default settings and without any extensions and themes. You do not need to delete your old profile when testing.
Please follow these instructions and try that site with a new profile:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs?action=show&redirect=DebuggingFirefox#Try%20with%20a%20new%20profile

[Pete Bartel (pbartel)]

I can't reproduce this problem any more (Firefox 3.0.10 on Ubuntu 9.04). It appears that the problem has been fixed somewhere along the way.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.

[reza davoudi (rd1381)]

i have the same problem the appeared in 3.0.11 and continued to exits in 3.5
i think its an extension that causes that
anybody else got this too?
help me plz
its very frosturating to customized your toolbar every other time

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

@rd1381
Could you please try with a new profile to see if that's the issue?
firefox -ProfileManager
You do not need to delete your old profile to test.

[reza davoudi (rd1381)]

i am sure its some extension fault
i have this bug in both linux and windows
and i tried installing my firefox AND profile from scratch
but the list of my extension is very long
and the nature of my problem ( reseting tollbar sometimes after updating an extension) makes it hard to identify the guilty extension.

any body else got this issue?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please try reproducing this bug using the following command:
firefox --safe-mode

Also list all your extensions and version of them.
There have been a few that have caused this issue.

[reza davoudi (rd1381)]

as i said it hard reproducing this bug , because it happens at relaunch so i cant test it with safe mode (unless i could set firefox to always launch in safe mode)

and i have attached a list of my addons

[reza davoudi (rd1381)]

update
it happens even when i check for extension update and there is no update :(

[reza davoudi (rd1381)]

i found the cause of my problem
it was ubernote toolbar v2
somehow it is not compatible with another firefox extension( i dont know which one0 but disabling it solved my problem
i posted a bug in their forum but still no answer :(

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed by removing the problematic extension. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.