When trying to run :dialog searchengines, the dialog doesn't open and XUL buttons are not clickable

[fakedrake]

Issue type:

• Bug report

Version:

Version Information
Vimperator: 3.14.0 (created: 2016/06/07 23:58:16)
Firefox:    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0

Also reproduced on OSX. Same versions.

Description:

I try running

:dialog searchengines

Which is autocompleted as expected but the dialog does not open (hitting enter does nothing). After that some buttons stop functioning, notably the disable/remove buttons in the :addons tab.

When in this breakage situation newly opened tabs also have a chance of not appearing in the tab bar when but I couldn't reproduce that reliably so just keep an eye out for it.

Expected behavior:

The expected behavior I guess would be one of the following:

• to open preferences at the search engines tab.
• not to autocomplete searchengines in the first place
• Throw some error

Any of the above plus firefox should continue to function normally.

[timss]

Thanks for the bug report. Haven't looked into it further, but I think maybe this dialog was removed with the introduction of the new preferences about page (about:preferences#search).

[fakedrake]

I guess the real bug is that firefox gets disoriented instead of the command just failing.

[timss]

Yep. Option 1 in your list is what should happen.