2001050304 trunk. Preferences|Appearance The only item listed in start up item is Navigator. This bug is related to bug 78698.

There are more items such as Cookies, Password, Forms, and Security under Advanced that are not listed. Since you can not modify Autofill, this is a smoketest blocker.

I believe this is related to this bug... seen on linux commercial build 2001-05-03-05-trunk (note: doubled checked this agaist mozilla build 2001-05-03-05-trunk...it is present there too) - go to Tasks Mail and IM aren't listed the icons for these apps are also missing from bottom left of the browser Able to test IM from the sidebar. - go to Tasks | Privacy and Security Personal Security Manager is the only selection there( and doesn't exist) there should also be Form manager, cookie manager and password manager

adding matt

seems like dynamic overlays must have broke somehow... I think this is causing the other smoketest blocker as well

*** Bug 78698 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

nope, it's a packaging issue - my build is just fine.

Why, then is prefs.js modified so that the old mail/news account info is not used any more? I could not restore the info by copying and pasting from old prefs.js into the new one. I had to replace entire prefs.js with the old one.

even if it's a packaging issue, someone has to fix it and I'm feeling nasty today so the tree stays closed til it is, and we respin.

ok, no matter what the status is, not having mailnews installed will not eliminate the mail prefs from your prefs.js - something else must have gone wrong.

there were some packaging related checkins yesterday, but nothing that would cause this problem, as best I can tell. Does this only happen on installed builds, or does it happen on .tar.gz's too?

If you see Mail/News appearing OK, try launching again. The second or third launch would show this bug.

Someone else reported this to me on my rpm builds which means it's probably a packaging problem of some kind.

I believe switching themes is causing this. I reloaded the build on all three platforms and the menus and icons are present. Reducing severity.

I'mm seeing this bug on Windows 98 using build ID 2001050304 (the latest zipped version). The first time I ran this new build I had mail. The second time I ran it mail was gone. My task menu now only list Navigator, Composer and Address Book. The Preferences panel is also similarly slim.

on the mac, if you do a fresh install, everything's there. If you switch themes and restart the browser, they're missing. the question is, is this caused by switching themes, or by restarting the browser. If it's switching themes we can tell people not to do that. If it's just restarting the browser that causes this, this is still a blocker.

I can assure you that this has nothing to do with theme switching.

i didn't switch themes, and i see this with subsequent startups of the browser. upping to blocker.

One windows I switch themes then nothing happens. All windows are still modern. I close the pref window and reopen it it now has the classic theme Then I restart the browser and browser window finally shows the classic theme. In my tasks menu i have a (2) right above privacy and security.

Could it be the theme itself? I have, so far, failed to reproduce this on the Mac using the classic theme. Let me switch over to the modern theme and see what happens.

Ok, I take that back. I just lost security while still under classic.

i don't understand why this isn't a blocker --i didn't switch themes, but i see this when i restart the browser. or, could it be dependent on what the theme was on startup [ie, not theme switching per se]? thx!

hokay, spoke with akkana-sheriff-in-residence who sez this might be a packaging issue and that matt and chris are working on it. however, the tree is now open, and i don't know if there are gonna be respins for this. go ahead and bump this down to critical...but it'd be nice to get further info. thanks in advance!

Sorry, I'm seeing things... I can't reproduce with either skin Classic or Modern.

If possible, I'd like to get respins for this. Having certain components not show up on subsequent launch of the product is not good. Also, the summary of this bug talks about preferences, but from reading this bug, it appears to talk about unable to access those componetns from the Task menu or the Taskbar.

sspitzer & I tried backing out waterson's xmlrdf change from yesterday, and it seems to fix this problem. Over to waterson.

backed out waterson's change, marking fixed.

Something that may or may not be related is: on the Mac, if you click the Task menu right after launch, as soon as the menubar appears and before the first window is displayed, the menu is unusually long and the items are all messed up. It appears as: Task ------------------------ Navigator 1 Mail 2 Mail 2 Composer 4 Address Book 5 ------------------------ IRC Chat 8 Privacy and Security > IRC Chat 8 ------------------------ Tools > ------------------------ Navigator 1 Composer 4 Address Book 5 ------------------------ Privacy and Security > ------------------------ Tools > ------------------------ Interestingly enough, the bottom part of the menu corresponds to what people have describes: no Mail, no IRC. Then if you release the mouse button, wait until the first window shows up and click the mnu again, it's back to normal.

peirre: I have been seeing that for a while now, I think it's already reporter.

pierre, what you're seeing is bug 78322.

*** Bug 78784 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 78792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

vrfy fixed w/mozilla bits: win98: 2001.05.04.06 mac: 2001.05.04.08 linux: 2001.05.03.14

I don't think the problem has anything to do with themes. I always "rm -f" .mozilla and /usr/local/mozilla, then perform a typical install. The first time I can see Mail listed in Tasks menu but if I close the browser and then immediately launch it again, the Mail item from the Task menu is gone! I think this is a blocker as this wasn't present at build 20010303*.