When menu icons are disabled, users must restart Firefox for the change to appear

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu release, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and this bug is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could let us know what version of Firefox you are currently using.

Also, if this bug is still a problem for you, could you please describe the issue more clearly? It would be great if you could provide us with specific steps to reproduce the problem, along with a clear description of the behavior you are experiencing.

I have lucid and I cannot find this setting in Appearance tabs

Thank you for the response. In Lucid, the Interface tab has been removed from the Appearance settings. If you wish to enable/disable icons in menus, you must run 'gksu gconf-editor' then navigate to 'desktop' > 'gnome' > 'interface'. Then you will find a check box for icons in the menus.

While testing this on a Live USB of Lucid Alpha 3, my icons were disabled in menus by default and I could not enable them, so hopefully you will have better luck.

However, on Karmic I was able to disable/enable icons in the Firefox menus without any trouble.

If you are able to test this on Karmic and/or Lucid, please let us know what you find.

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

you don't need gksu for gconf-editor ;-)

problem still persists
icons are disappeared from all programs (liferea, empathy, evolution), but in Firefox there are always icons, independant of settings in gconf-editor

Sorry about that, I just found that out a few days ago =)

I'm sorry to hear that the problem is still persisting for you. Could you please run the following command in a terminal?

apport-collect 424711

That will collect debugging information from your system so we can get a better idea of what is causing this bug. Thanks in advance!

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

now, I have lucid (upgraded from karmic)

I am sorry, I had forgotten

in upgraded system to lucid problem still persists (only in firefox for me)

in lucid beta 2 tested in KVM, there is not that problem

but, there is another problem, see screenshots

Sorry for the delayed response. Could you please make sure your system is fully up-to-date and let us know if you are still seeing icons in the system menus and Firefox? I'm guessing that Firefox is still having an issue with this, but I'm hoping the system menus have been fixed.

I am going to do clean install at weekend, than I will make a report

in Default clean installation icons in system and places are missing, Firefox is ok, 'coz in other program icons are not displayed

So the problem has been resolved for you?

maybe firefox does not ingore settings of showing icons, but there are missing some icons in main menu (Places and System)

Other than the missing icons in the main menus, does Firefox seem to be following the settings that you have set for showing icons?

a bit, firefox follows settings, but after restart itself, not in realtime like other GTK+ apps

but after its reastart

Thanks you for all of the information that you have provided us. Based on your comments, we have been able to confirm this bug and file it upstream to Mozilla. Since this report has enough information for the developers to work on a fix, I am marking this report Triaged. Please continue to report any bugs you encounter!