Firefox preferences window for zoom image and tab mix plus extensions are zero sized

[J G Miller]

Binary package hint: firefox

In Ubuntu Edgy Eft with

i386 Firefox version 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10

after installing the Tab Mix Plus extension version 0.3.5.2 and/or the Image Zoom extension version 0.2.7, on clicking the "Tab Mix Plus Options" from the Tools menu or the Tab Mix Plus "Preferences" button the Image Zoom "Preferences" button from the Extensions lists, results in a miniscule window (with title bar) appearing.

If the menu item or preferences button is clicked a second time, a normal size window appears, but it is completely empty (white not even the theme color) and contains no text. If this window is then closed, and the options menu item menu or preferences button is then clicked yet again, the correctly sized preferences window then appears as normal with text and buttons. The preferences window continues to be correctly rendered on further instantiation.

If the CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 1.8.2.1 extension is installed, no window whatsoever appears when either of the Tab Mix Plus menu option or preferences button or Image Zoom preferences is activated, and repeated attempts at clicking the prefences button do not cause a preferences dialog window to appear as
happens when this extension is not installed.

This behavior of a miniscule window or no window at all when CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 1.8.2.1 extension is installed has not affected numerous other extensions with a preferences dialog window.

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

Can you please visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs and follow those steps. This will help us debug your problem better. Thanks.
--
Freddy.

[J G Miller (jgmiller)]

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Hi Freddy!

Thank you for responding to my bug report.

At 07:43:36h GMT, on Tuesday, January 9th, 2007,
in message <email address hidden>,
on the subject of "[Bug 78126] Re: Firefox preferences window for zoom image an
d tab mix plus extensions are zero sized",
you wrote -

 > Can you please visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs and follow th=
 > ose steps. This will help us debug your problem better. Thanks.

I can confirm that if I login as another user who has no profile,
fires up Firefox for the first time, and installs the Tab Mix Plus
extension only, without any other extensions or themes installed,
that the same symptoms manifest themselves, namely on clicking
the Tab Mix Plus options menu item under tools or under preferences
that I get a white miniscule window. On reclicking the menu item
or preferences, a normal size window appears but again it is empty
and white.

At the command line, the following messages appear

* Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

On restarting Firefox the window appears normally and
after subsequent restarts the preferences dialog continues to
appear normally.

Using the method of creating a new profile for the default user,
results in the same symptoms. The very first time after the
installation that Firefox is launched the preferences window
is miniscule and white, but subsequent re-launches of Firefox
result in a correctly rendered window.

I have now gone back to the original profile with all of the
other extensions and themes installed, and again, the first
time that I launch Firefox, the miniscule window appears
for both Tab Mix Plus and Image Zoom, but on closing down
Firefox and restarting, the problem disappears.

It is evident that I am not the only Ubuntu user
who has observed this problem

http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4355

http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4480

http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4622

http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5687

and similarly there is a conflict upon subsequent installation
of Cute Menus, that the dialog window then never appears
(obviously something that the Cute Menus extension author
needs to address).

I have now tried using Firefox (version 2.0.2pre) on OpenSuse 10.2
with all three of these extensions and no problem of
a miniscule window or a window not appearing at all for the
preferences dialogs when Cute Menus is installed occurs.

Thanks once again for looking into this, and if
I can provide any further information please let me know.

Greg

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please remove all extenstions and try to reproduce this.

[Lars Westerhoff (lwhoff)]

Hi,

I am not the OP but just wanted to confirm that for me the problem also appear when all extensions (except Tab Mix Plus of course) are disabled in firefox 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2 in feisty. I do not have Cute Menus installed (nor did I ever have).

If enabled the following errors appear in the error console:

Fehler: dialogParams has no properties
Quelldatei: chrome://tabmixplus/content/session/promptservice.js
Zeile: 97

Fehler: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIRDFService.GetResource]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://tabmixplus/content/session/session.js :: anonymous :: line 609" data: no]

Neither the problem nor the entries in the error log occur with the tar.gz from mozilla.com so it must have something to do with a Ubuntu modification of firefox.

I hope this helps to nail down the problem a bit.

Lars

[DarkSpecter (dante-inworld)]

hi

i have the same problems with TMP and firefox but only with the ubuntu version of it, the same profile used with a downloaded and nmodified version from mozilla.org has no problems with TMP at all.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

please file this bug against the extensions in Ubuntu if that is where you installed from or with upstream author.