Hi, Mike,
I'm a stable user who just discovered this bug. Upstream pointed out the
commit that included the solution to this problem [1] and I'm attaching
the relevant part of that commit as a patch here.
If you would push for it to go through stable-updates, it would help
users without requiring them to abandon stable. Otherwise, the bug will
be immortalized in Debian 8.
Users who need an immediate solution, you will want to add the following
line to the file /usr/share/zotero-standalone/defaults/preferences/prefs.js
pref("browser.preferences.instantApply", false);
Many thanks and regards
Afif
1.
https://github.com/zotero/zotero-standalone-build/issues/35#issuecomment-83163124
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Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي
http://afif.ghraoui.name
Description: Fix issue of empty preferences window
Origin: upstream, https://github.com/zotero/zotero-standalone-build/commit/a281e17d176cbe1fcfa4d627984bf8dd8c81a9da
Bug: https://github.com/zotero/zotero-standalone-build/issues/35
Last-Update: 2015-06-28
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This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
--- zotero-standalone-build.orig/assets/prefs.js 2014-09-18 12:25:43.000000000 -0700
+++ zotero-standalone-build/assets/prefs.js 2015-06-28 13:36:06.739973266 -0700
@@ -146,3 +146,6 @@
// update channel for this build
pref("app.update.channel", "default");
+
+// This should probably not be a preference that's used in toolkit....
+pref("browser.preferences.instantApply", false);
