Bug#762819: iceweasel: xulrunner application error when starting with firefox -app

[Michele Cane]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 32.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I maintain zotero-standalone which previously depended on xulrunner. Since iceweasel 30 xulrunner is 
nomeore built and tehrefore I start the application with firefox -app. The application runs fine but when 
the preference pane is launched it is empty and the js console reports this error:

Error: NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED: Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]
Source File: chrome://global/content/bindings/preferences.xml
Line: 593

when I run the application with xulrunner from mozilla website everything works fine.

This problem arises with every version since 30.

I have no clue about what the possible problem is and would like to fix it before the freeze because not setting the 
preferences is quite frustrating and results in zotero sa with limited usage.

Cheers

Mike

-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

Name: Zotero
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/zotero at chnm.gmu.edu
Package: xul-ext-zotero
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: Google Talk Plugin
Location: /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk.so
Package: google-talkplugin
Status: enabled

Name: Google Talk Plugin Video Renderer
Location: /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpo1d.so
Package: google-talkplugin
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  google-talkplu 5.4.2.0-1    amd64        Google Talk Plugin
ii  iceweasel      32.0-1       amd64        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  xul-ext-zotero 4.0.22-1     all          Iceweasel extension to organize a

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.4
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.1
ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-11
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.16-5
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-1.1
ii  libffi6                   3.1-2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-15
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.30.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.0-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.24-1
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-2
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.17.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.7-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.6-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-15
ii  libvpx1                   1.3.0-2.1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1
ii  procps                    1:3.3.10-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  fonts-mathjax          2.4-1
pn  fonts-oflb-asana-math  <none>
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-1
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-2.1
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.5-3
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-10
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information