127107 - Launching address book freezes mozilla

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Vincent Jaubert]

When i want to launch the adress book, a new window open, but nothing more happens.
Mozilla freezes, and an heavy load is put on the CPU.
At the end, i kill the Mozilla task.
Seen on Windows XP on build 2002022103

Comment 1

[Pedro Fernando]

I have the same problem on Windows 98 on build 2002031104.

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-04-08: WinMe, Linux RH 7.1, ok.
Trunk build 2002-02-22: Linux RH 7.1, ok.
Mozilla build 0.9.9: WinMe, ok.
The address book window opens without a freeze/crash using the above builds.

Can you try Mozilla 0.9.9. What happens in a new profile? Please supply detailed
steps, if this continues, so we can try to duplicate the problem.

Comment 3

[Vincent Jaubert]

Doesn't happen anymore on build 2002040103. I think it can be switched to INVALID.

Comment 4

[Sopho M]

I'm seeing similar behaviour on windows NT with 2002041711. (1.0RC1)

If I start the address book with a browser window already open a blank address
window will open and the browser window will come to the top. After that the
load on the machine sky rockets and the windows just sit there until I kill mozilla.

If I start the address book from the mail window and a browser window is not
open, a blank(not filled) address book window will come up _and_ a new browser
window will be opened with "http://find/". The browser will then sit there but
it does not completely hang. I can still type in URLs and mozilla renders them
(much much much slower than normal). The menus don't work though and I can't
move or exit any of the windows. During this period BTW the mail window and the
address book window will be completely unresponsive. (AB window also still blank)

Comment 5

[Sopho M]

Creating a new profile and using it works around the problem. If I switch back
to my old profile, the problem still exists. 

Comment 6

[Steve]

I was also able to get around the problem by
deleting the .mab file from my profile directory.
(Also found an old .nab file there which I also 
deleted).

Comment 7

[Sopho M]

In 1.0RC3 I still get the "http://find" browser to come up but non of the
mozilla windows freeze.

Comment 8

[Arno Roefs]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build: 2002053012

WFM

Comment 9

[Ninoschka Baca]

Branch build 2002-07-16: WinMe, Mac 10.1.3
Branch build 2002-07-17: Linux RH 7.1
Verified Worksforme.