After a improper shutdown of mozilla, the Mail, Address and IRC Chat functions are hidden from the component bar and from the window menu. This happened after logging out of Solaris without closing Mozilla first. To fix problem, had to reinstall the binary tar ball. After that everything is good. This happened with mozilla-0.9.9, now using mozilla-1.0 RC1.

I don't know about the "improper shutdown" part, but here's how this happened to me: 1. I downloaded the "solaris-789" tarball from the nightly area. (I noticed this isn't up-to-date) 2. It worked great for a run or two (all on the first day) Then I moved the install directory, and set up a launcher icon 3. then i noticed that the launch panel only has the navigator icon and also the prefs item for "Mail and Newsgroups" is missing. 4. I downloaded the "solaris-2.6" tarball from the nightly today (the day after the first download) and I get the same bug. I have tried to remove my .mozilla directory, but the start-up scripts keep wanting to convert my old .netscape / .netscape6 directories. What is the best way to start mozilla in the "virgin" state? Am I suppsoed to "confirm" the bug even though I'm not a developer? I can't from the UI if that's what I'm supposed to do. Anyway, I'll report the same bug. --chris

to XP apps, confirming based on second report

Okay -- If I reextract the original tar file, this bug goes away. But then if I just mozilla and quit it (using the window-manager/title-bar quit button) then my install directory gets corrupted, and I lose the mail icon in the launcher bar.

Sorry for entering lots of little comments instead of waiting until I had finished investigating. I realize I might be generating spam. Apologies in advance. I think I'm dong investigating for a while. A recursive diff of a "broken" install dir and a freshly untarred one shows this: Binary files mozilla.broken/component.reg and mozilla/component.reg differ Only in mozilla.broken/chrome: chrome.rdf diff -r mozilla.broken/components/xpti.dat mozilla/components/xpti.dat 5c5 < 1,AppDir,/home/quenelle/src/netscape/moz-apr26-s26/mozilla --- > 1,AppDir,/builds/client/sol26/seamonkey/mozilla/dist/bin ... ... ... Many more diffs that I can supply if they seem important. The first few are just updated install paths, most of the diffs are just different numbers (timestamps or hashes)

er, XP apps again

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125489 ***

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This bug has been fixed for mozilla1.0 branch, but is pretty complicated. I suggest you confirm this fix makes your problem go away.