User capabilities not updating

It seems I caught one situation when ‘Update’ button stops working.
Thanks to @driftmagazine.

Google Chrome browser adds
'Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs'
checkbox to the standard confirmation box if it’s called 2nd time from the same page.

So, you updated role 1st time. Then you made some clicks on user capabilities and pressed ‘Update’ button again. URE showed you the update confirmation request and You turned on ‘Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs’ checkbox and clicked ‘OK’.
Role was updated successfully this time also, but any new click on ‘Update’ button is ignored then, because browser returns ‘false’ automatically for all new JavaScript confirm() function call from this page.

Did someone from this thread authors write about exactly this issue?

Fix for the issue above is easy. I just closed and opened the browser tab with User Role Editor page again. Update confirmation returned back.

I’m not sure if we may look on this issue as the bug, because of ‘Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs’ checkbox is provided by browser itself. Turning it ON here is the same as to answer ‘Yes’ on the question ‘Do you wish that User Role Editor’ stop working?

From other side, I suppose now that it will be useful for some users of URE plugin to have option to switch OFF a role update confirmation dialog. Please confirm.

Thanks, nice work! ??

You may try development version (4.21):
https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/user-role-editor.zip
Changes list:
– It’s possible to switch off the update role confirmation (Settings – User Role Editor – General tab).
– Standard confirm box before role update was replaced with custom one to exclude ‘Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs’ option in the Google Chrome browser.

I was having a similar issue in a multisite installation. Running the editor from the root site and applying changes to all sites did nothing.

Remembering what I read on another thread here, I hid the object-cache.php file in wp-content (just renamed it to _object-cache.php) and everything worked.

Thanks @tommcgee for this information.
I think I should look at the caching plugins more carefully. What caching plugin do you use?

We’re not using any plugin on this server, only the built-in WP caching.