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Firefox 3.5b4 and Thunderbird 3b2 - "Preferences" dialog broken

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Nikos Chantziaras

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Jun 9, 2009, 10:40:41 PM6/9/09
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I decided to check out Firefox 3.5 beta4 and Thunderbird 3.0 beta2.
They run without problems (I'm sending this from TB 3) except that I
can't change their configuration. In both Firefox and Thunderbird,
"Edit->Preferences" brings up a big but totally empty dialog. I did "rm
-rf ~/.mozilla ~/.thunderbird" so everything is clean, but still no go.

Anyone else encountered this? I'm on Linux (Gentoo Linux AMD64.)

»Q«

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Jun 10, 2009, 3:19:03 AM6/10/09
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In <news:Y6adneHxoP24gLLX...@mozilla.org>,
Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:

You're using the mozilla-firefox-bin-3.5_beta4 and
mozilla-thunderbird-bin-3.0_beta2 in the portage tree? If so, I'll try
out the Thunderbird one on Gentoo x86 and see if I get the same problem.

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Nikos Chantziaras

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Jun 10, 2009, 4:01:26 AM6/10/09
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On 06/10/2009 10:19 AM, »Q« wrote:
> In<news:Y6adneHxoP24gLLX...@mozilla.org>,
> Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
>
>> I decided to check out Firefox 3.5 beta4 and Thunderbird 3.0 beta2.
>> They run without problems (I'm sending this from TB 3) except that I
>> can't change their configuration. In both Firefox and Thunderbird,
>> "Edit->Preferences" brings up a big but totally empty dialog. I did
>> "rm -rf ~/.mozilla ~/.thunderbird" so everything is clean, but still
>> no go.
>>
>> Anyone else encountered this? I'm on Linux (Gentoo Linux AMD64.)
>
> You're using the mozilla-firefox-bin-3.5_beta4 and
> mozilla-thunderbird-bin-3.0_beta2 in the portage tree?

No. Those are horrible (they look even worse than Windows 95
applications). I've build from source as 64-bit applications using the
ebuilds in the "mozilla" overlay.

This is a screenshot of the problem: http://i44.tinypic.com/2i70jer.png

Graham P Davis

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Jun 10, 2009, 6:20:47 AM6/10/09
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Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

I've recently installed OpenSUSE 11.2(Milestone-2) which includes FF3.5b4.
The preferences dialogue is OK.

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Nikos Chantziaras

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Jun 10, 2009, 8:02:44 AM6/10/09
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OK, the problem was the Gtk theme (QtCurve). It seems it's not
compatible with FF 3.5 and TB 3 because it tries to apply some tweaks
using *.css and *.xml files. I did "rm -r
/usr/share/themes/QtCurve/mozilla" and now it works, though the buttons
are now reversed ("Cancel / OK" instead of "OK / Cancel" which would be
the correct order.)

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