Closed
Bug 294742
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Web Developer Extension causes loss of bookmark bar and all navigation ability (back, forward, etc.) -- caused by the following code in the extension: const content = window.document.getElementById("content");
Categories
(Core :: XUL, defect)
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RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: rudelicious, Unassigned)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050518 Firefox/1.0+
I'm no coding expert, but this is basically what happens:
a) No buttons in the bookmark bar
b) Complete inability to navigate (back, forward) using any method
(buttons, keyboard, right-clicking on the content... "back" and "forward" are
grayed out)
c) Perhaps related... the firefox update icon (next to the help menu) stays
present until you actually check for updates manually, then goes away.
I fiddled around on Chris Pederick's website and found that somebody has
isolated the actual line of code that causes the problem:
const content = window.document.getElementById("content");
to read more about it, see:
http://chrispederick.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=668
I realize that this is a "problem" with the extension, and Mr. Pederick hopes
to fix it in his next release, but seeing as it used to work fine with
previous releases and nightly builds, is this also an indication of a bug in
Firefox?
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install any of the recent nightly builds of firefox. They work fine.
2. Install the "Web Developer Extension" available from
http://chrispederick.com ... then reload firefox.
3. Firefox will not open any URL on startup. You can open URLs from the
address bar, and clicking on links will take you to new pages, but two killer
symptoms:
a) No buttons in the bookmark bar
b) Complete inability to navigate (back, forward) using any method
(buttons, keyboard, right-clicking on the content... "back" and "forward" are
grayed out)
c) Perhaps related... the firefox update icon (next to the help menu) stays
present until you actually check for updates manually, then goes away.
Actual Results:
Doesn't work.
Expected Results:
Has worked with previous nightly builds and releases prior to 1.0.4.
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Comment 1•20 years ago
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This is not a bug in Firefox, but in an extension. It is up to the developer of
the extension to maintain compatibility with Firefox.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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Comment 2•19 years ago
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Not FF only
Component: General → XP Toolkit/Widgets
OS: Windows XP → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Summary: Web Developer Extension causes Firefox to lose bookmark bar and all navigation ability (back, forward, etc.) -- caused by the following code in the extension: const content = window.document.getElementById("content"); → Web Developer Extension causes loss of bookmark bar and all navigation ability (back, forward, etc.) -- caused by the following code in the extension: const content = window.document.getElementById("content");
Version: unspecified → Trunk
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