You have to manually edit prefs.js (yes, i deleted ~/.mozilla and tested) to specify your home page and startup location. Build #2001082917 (and a few days prior i believe) David

None of the settings on this part of the preferences panel work: a) radio boxes b) home/start page c) check boxes for toolbar

tracy, did you see any of this while smoketesting today's linux bits? just a wild guess, but i wonder if this might related to the mail horkage, bug 97626...except that that's xp. hrm. anyhow, rkaa has reported [in another bug 93173] that save and open dialogs on linux are also busted. anyone else see this? lemme go grab a build...

filed bug 97658 for the save and open issue.

sairuh, prefs panel is working fine on the commercial 2001-08-30-06-trunk build that I tested with today.

wfm using 2001.08.30.12-comm bits. david, could you try a more recent build? if it's still a problem, do reopen.

I'll run update and build, give me an hour

I'm unable to confirm 'it works for me'. It doesn't work. None of the preferences in the Preferences->Navigator| panel are retained. Many of the others are, I haven't tested all of them. The radio buttons won't retain their selection beyond the current instantiation, the home page is not saved, and the check boxes are not retained. $ egrep "^(ac|mk)" ~/.mozconfig mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j4 ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ac_add_options --disable-pedantic ac_add_options --disable-ldap ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-bidi ac_add_options --disable-accessibiilty ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs ac_add_options --enable-crypto ac_add_options --enable-jsd ac_add_options --enable-nspr-autoconf ac_add_options --enable-elf-dynstr-gc ac_add_options --enable-mathml ac_add_options --enable-svg ac_add_options --enable-mng ac_add_options --enable-x11-shm ac_add_options --enable-pics ac_add_options --enable-double-buffer ac_add_options --with-glib ac_add_options --with-gtk ac_add_options --with-jpeg ac_add_options --with-zlib ac_add_options --with-png ac_add_options --with-java-supplement If I should drop any of those options, please advise me.

More information and commonality found. None of the main prefs panels work; Appearance, Navigator, Composer..etc. All their sub panels -do- work. If you change a main panel prefs, hit OK, and quit mozilla, mozilla will segfault.

At least you have a typo there: ac_add_options --disable-accessibiilty ^^ The optimalisation you're doing is not the one mozilla is built with by default. I believe the culprit in this bug is --enable-optimize=03 There are some known issues regarding in particular preferences horkage in bug 53486. See for instance comment From Frederic Crozat 2001-08-06 01:36

one more thing: I build with --enable-optimize=O2 and do not see the bug you describe.

doh! In regards to optimizing, I've been building with these flags for weeks, I've been building -O3 for months. However I did change to a 3.0.1 gcc snapshot because of a 3.0.0 gcc bug that segfaults in a compile stage elsewhere in moz. I'll take a look at the inline count optimizing and see what I can come up with. This looks like further commentary on this bug should travel over to bug 53486. Agreed?

By and by, various bugs will split out from bug 53486. Since both the compiler (gcc 3*) and optimalisation in this case aren't defaults, i suspect this bug is invalid - at the current time. It's prone to surface again though, so not sure what to do with this. Anyway: It's a "build config" bug. Changing component for now.

Ok, I've confirmed it's a gcc related issue. I was previously using the CFLAGS of "-malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -ffast-math", unsetting CFLAGS and recompiling with -O3 optimization works fine. All preference UIs appear to operate properly now.

OK. Thanks for reporting all this. Resolving as invalid, but making a note in bug 53486 Adding gcc 3 to summary.

verified invalid.