Closed Bug 179979 Opened 22 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Improve errror message when Message Composer fails to startup, "Please try again." is misleading.

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 659961

People

(Reporter: cmanske, Unassigned)

Details

If we fail to startup a message compose window, user gets the message:
"Composer dead : An error occured while creating a message compose window.
Please try again."
This doesn't seem like a good message, especially the "Please try again."
Seems to imply that the app has random errors and trying again will work!
-->varada
Assignee: ducarroz → varada
taking all of varada's bugs.
Assignee: varada → sspitzer
Hey, what do you do when a bug (related to this one, sort of) has not been
confirmed since August, is marked both "critical" and "PC" but is also affecting
linux and Mac, and seems to be just sitting there idle?

Bug 162640 - "an error occurred while creating a message compose window. Please
try again. T"

But a better description is "cannot create new mail messages"
Product: MailNews → Core
sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
"Please try again." may be misleading
Severity: normal → minor
OS: Windows 2000 → All
QA Contact: esther → composition
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Improve errror message when Message Composer fails to startup → Improve errror message when Message Composer fails to startup, "Please try again." is misleading.
Product: Core → MailNews Core
bug 659961 has more info
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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