Firefox freeze trying to open Markdown Here options

[jjroper]

I don't know when it started, but when I went to tweak MDH options in Firefox (the most recent version, with a just re-installed MDH), nothing happened. I then clicked on anything within Firefox and got a "ping" noise and Firefox was completely unresponsive. I had to force close to restart. Since the first time, I have tried on and off. No luck. Any suggestions?

[r2evans]

I have the same problem. I've been able to work around it this way. (This is not for the faint-of-heart, unfortunately.)

1. Go to Tools > Developer Tools > Developer Toolbox. It will prompt you to allow remote debugging, press "OK". (I suspect it's using Firefox's remote debugging console.)

2. I grabbed the following code from markdown-here source. Copy and paste it into the entry field (bottom of the "Console" tab):

               var windowMediator = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1']
                                              .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator);
               var optionsUrl = 'resource://markdown_here_common/options.html';
               if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Thunderbird') >= 0 ||
                   navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Icedove') >= 0) {
                   windowMediator.getMostRecentWindow('mail:3pane')
                                 .document.getElementById('tabmail')
                                 .openTab('contentTab', {contentPage: optionsUrl});
               }

Don't mis-understand me: there is definitely a bug, and I've seen no activity from @adam-p in a while, but this allows me to at least access the MDH configuration.

(Win10-x64, TB 52.0b4 (32-bit), MDH 2.12.0)

[adam-p]

Duplicate of #369 (which will be closed soon).