Unable to dismiss gprivacy preference pane on OS X

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Please see attached.

OS X 10.8.5, fully patched.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by noloa...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2015 at 2:27

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• gprivacy-preferences.png

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My bad... What's not readily apparent in the image is the gprivacy preference 
pane is slightly larger than the window in the background (look closely). 
Notice it has no Ok/Cancel like on Windows 
(https://code.google.com/p/gprivacy/wiki/README#Options).

I got the gprivacy preference pane by clicking the Open button in the Privacy 
tab of Firefox preferences. You can see parts of Privacy tab in the image. Its 
in the background.

Original comment by noloa...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2015 at 2:34

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Somehow it seems that FF doesn't expand the options-dialog properly under OS X.

But, as mentioned in issue 19, we do not have any OS X machines available, so 
the only option would be to disable gPrivacy on that platform.

Original comment by hhofe...@googlemail.com on 10 Apr 2015 at 10:04

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Well, this actually seems to be a kind of configuration problem.
It's described here (see the red warning box):
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/prefwindow#a-buttons

This means you could set browser.preferences.instantApply to false in 
about:config , then everything works as expected.

The real problem is, that with the default FF OS X settings, it's not possible 
to dismiss the settings (which isn't a dialog in OS X, but a pane) by mouse 
operation.
If you close the pane by pressing escape, gPrivacys settings aren't applied, 
which they should be, according to the docs.

As a quick fix, I would recommend to set the about:config preference.
In the future, I could make the the settings a non-modal dialog, but I don't 
like the idea of settings dialog being hidden by its parent window...

Original comment by hhofe...@googlemail.com on 11 Apr 2015 at 5:22