User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520 Firefox/1.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520 Firefox/1.0+ about:config values are not changing if a second tab in the window is opened Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a link in a tab 2. type about:config in the address bar 3. try to modify a value 4. JavaScript console shows Error: ModifySelected is not defined Source File: about:config Line: 1 Actual Results: Unable to modify any values in about:config Expected Results: able to modify any values in about:config about:config works if it is the first uri that you type into the address bar.

How is this xpconnect? Tried this in 1.0.4 and it works. I'll have to give it a try in a trunk build

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052009

This seems to be fixed by the "Fix parenting" patch on bug 281988

WORKSFORME now that the patch bz mentioned has landed. But we know what fixed it, so marking FIXED. /be