Closed
Bug 185376
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Mozilla starts but then freezes catastrophically.
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 168516
People
(Reporter: lakanen, Assigned: asa)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2.1/mozilla-win32-1.2.1-installer.exe
I've been running 1.2.1 for over a week without problem. This morning I've been
experiencing catastrophic failures. It started when I was writing an email
message to myself - nothing fancy, just a little text and an attached image from
a web site. When I pressed Ctrl-Enter to send the message it seemed to take a
long time. I realized after a bit the browser was frozen. I
right-mouse-clicked on the app tab in the Start menu bar to Close the app. I
got the menu but when I clicked Close I got the "This app not responding" dialog
and forced it to close Mozilla. Thinking it was just one of those things, I
immediately re-started Moz, went to the same web page (incidentally here:
http://news.com.com/2009-1017-976178.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed) with the quote and
related chart I was e-mailing to myself. As soon as I pressed Ctrl-Enter the ap
froze again.
Next I rebooted my system - it had been a while. When system came back up I
lauched Moz, went through the same steps and it froze yet again. Next I
restarted Moz but this time brought up Preferences to clear cache. As soon as I
clicked Edit, Preferences, it froze yet again.
Next I decided a re-install was in order. I deleted the Moz app directory (not
the App settings directory on C: though) and re-installed 1.2.1. Still got the
exact same bahavior.
So I dropped back to punt by installing 1.0.1.
When can I get a version of Moz with separate icons for Mail and Browser that
actually works?
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Moz 1.2.1. on my system.
2.Launch Moz.
3.Click Edit, Preferences.
4.Watch it freeze.
Actual Results:
Nothing - it froze. :-)
Expected Results:
Umm... displayed Preferences dialog window.
It doesn't crash - it freezes. No nothing else to report.
Comment 1•22 years ago
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Reporter:
Please close mozilla, find your Mozilla profile (it's in your OS user directory)
and delete the file XUL.mfl and restart mozilla.
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Actually, before deleting XUL.mfl, can you zip up a copy and email to
<jrgm@netscape.com>. It helps if I can see what has gone wrong with the
file. (Note: there is no personal information contained in that file (aside
from the path to wherever you have installed the build)].
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168516 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 3•22 years ago
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John Morrison:
just ask the triagers if you need a xul.mfl.
We will ask the reporters for this file the next time !
btw: we dupe many bugs to bug 169777
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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Comment 4•22 years ago
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Sorry for the delay in following up on this, everybody....
I made some time this morning to experiment with 1.2.1 some more. When I
re-installed it, I no longer had any of my problems. I have not touched the
XUL.mfl file. I'll run 1.2.1 for a few days and see if the problems crop up
again. If they do, I will follow your instructions regarding e-mailing the file
to John and then blowing it away.
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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