Comment 2 for bug 78126

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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