[feisty] Back/Forward buttons cease to work

[Alan Tam]

Binary package hint: firefox

The back and forward buttons on toolbar cease to be working since I upgraded to 2.0.0.1+1-0ubuntu1. It was working in 2.0.0.1+0dfsg-0ubuntu1.

[Alan Tam (at)]

Not even the buttons are disabled, but the stack of history url's is lost. Even the current url in the urlbar is incorrect (or empty). Looks like a huge breakage.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Does changing the theme affect how the buttons work? i tested it and still using it since before it was released. The biggest if not only change was trademark things shouldnt have had any UI changes.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

are you using feisty or edgy?

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

Can not reproduce either.

[Alan Tam (at)]

I am using feisty, as in the summary field.

I just confirmed that it is due to the "Html Validator 0.8.3.4" extension. Everything works after I disabled it, and it breaks even if only this extension is enabled.

Error Console shows:-

Error: oTidyUtil.tidy has no properties
Source File: chrome://tidy/content/tidyBrowser.js
Line: 188

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Closing this as it is being caused by an unsupported extension.

[Alan Tam (at)]

I suspect this extension is special because it contains a binary shared object with C source, and the new version firefox has different ABI than the one it is compiled against.

I don't know whether you have any "supported extension" that has shared object inside. Even if there is none, if the problem is not restricted to this particularly extension but a more general problem, I think it still worths further investigation.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Alan since ubuntu doesnt support it we cant do anything about it. The best thing to do is file a bug on mozilla's bug tracker found here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/