Closed Bug 143764 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Quick Launch doesn't work with multiple profiles

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: QuickLaunch (AKA turbo mode), defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
QuickLaunch (AKA turbo mode)
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
mozilla1.2alpha

People

(Reporter: waiyee404, Assigned: law)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression, relnote) 

Build ID: 2002051006
I chose to enable Quick Launch when installing Mozilla,
and double-checked it in "Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced",
but when the last open window is closed,
the Quick Launch icon disappears and it takes a long period to reopen Mozilla.

The could be irritating to some users like me that are using Mozilla in a very
old computer :(
Confirmed. I have similar behaviour with RC2 (platform Win98).
cannot reproduce here - Win98 and build 2002051304
Windows ME (4.90.300)
Mozilla 1.0RC2 (2002051006)

I'm experiencing the exact same problem as Winnie described.

On another note, I've used versions 0.9.7 and 0.9.9 on the same machine and
Quick Launch worked fine with both of them.  Tried uninstalling/reinstalling RC2
but problem persists.
Same problem with RC2 on Win2K Professional (Serv.Pack 1)
Seen on WinNT since installing 1.0RC2 (was OK on 1.0RC1)
Changing status to confirmed, since so many confirmations.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Actual results: Enabling Quick Launch, then closing Mozilla puts a Quick Launch
icon in the bar, but does not enable Quick Launch. After rebooting, Quick Launch
is enabled.

Expected results: Enabling Quick Launch works next time Mozilla is started,
without rebooting.

Is this a regression?
Keywords: mozilla1.0, nsbeta1
Summary: Quick Launch enabled but doesn't work → Quick Launch enabled but doesn't work until reboot
My experience is that it makes no difference restarting Mozilla or even
rebooting the O/S. Quick start is *completely* broken on my PC.

This is broken since installing 1.0RC2 (2002051006). Quick start worked with RC1.

My O/S is: Win2K Pro, SP1.
I can confirm that. I got Quick Launch to work once, but subsequent to that,
after restarting Mozilla, and even rebooting, it just doesn't work. 

Quick Launch is broken. Critical severity.
Severity: major → critical
Keywords: regression
for the folks that quick launch does not work for,
do you have multiple profiles?

chris h.
Including my one 4.x profile, I currently have 5 profiles. Not sure about other
folks.
I have problems with RC2's quickstart too, see bug 145306 - I have no profiles.
WFM with 1.0 RC2 on WinME.
With respect to comment #10 - yes, I have two profiles.

I have also two profiles (Comment #1).
After deleting my three test profiles, and keeping my 4.x profile and my one
Mozilla profile, I'm able to get QuickLaunch working. If you have one Mozilla
profile, it works. Otherwise, it's broken.

The exception is Tom Chiv, who must have at least one profile. You can figure
out how many profiles you have by closing Mozilla, then using Start | Run to
execute this:

c:\progra~1\mozilla.org\mozilla\mozilla.exe -profile_manager

Or alter that command line if you have Mozilla installed elsewhere.
*** Bug 145306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
wfm rc2 (2002051006) on win2K

Every time I install a new version of Mozilla, I
   1)   Unzip the latest zip file to a new directory
   2)   Rename the directory with the old profile and code
   3)   Delete the old profile in Profile Manager
   4)   Create a new profile with a new name

I often end up with QuickLaunch trying to load itself twice (once from the
previous install, once from the latest install).  Perhaps that's the problem?
Try using the seamonkey full installer and 
also reboot or restart your windows session.
Also check this BUGs:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103786
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121100
and mark "duplicate" as needed
Chris, I have three profiles.
Re: comment 19. I don't see a duplicate of this bug. 

Changing URL to reflect how the problem is specific to Mozilla installations
with more than one profile.

Proposed relnote: Quick Launch is supported in this release only if the Mozilla
installation has one Mozilla profile. If there is more than one Mozilla profile,
Quick Launch will not work.
Keywords: relnote
Summary: Quick Launch enabled but doesn't work until reboot → Quick Launch enabled but doesn't work with multiple profiles
See bug 136940- if multiple profiles exist, QuickLaunch exits

"We decided to implement new code that will run when in Quick Launch mode.  This
code will check, at last window closing, whether the user has multiple profiles
defined and if so, automatically exit QuickLaunch mode (and since the last
window is closing, exit Mozilla).

This code will be enabled via a pref that will default to "off."  The plan is to
change this default to "on" (or remove the pref check) if we are unable to get
QuickLaunch working reliably in multi-profile cases."
Summary: Quick Launch enabled but doesn't work with multiple profiles → Quick Launch doesn't work with multiple profiles
To my knowlege, I only have one profile, and it's broken for me...
nsbeta1- per Nav triage team.  We might be able to fix this for MachV (covered
by problems in other bugs), but we aren't going to require it.
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1-
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.2alpha
WFM fine in RC3 now...
Still broken for me on RC3 (Build ID: 2002052306) on Win2KProf(SP1).

One difference: after a reboot it pre-loads so that the first time I start
Mozilla it starts quickly. After I close the (only) Mozilla window, the Quick
Launch icon disappears from the system tray. The next time I start Mozilla, it
goes through the full load procedure, i.e. quick launch really was inoperative.

Previously (with RC2) I didn't get the first-time-after-boot-pre-load.

I hope this is fixed for general release.

I have the same behaviour like colin.gregg on WinNT4 SP6 with rc3

- After login I have a running quick launch. Double-click starts the
profile-selection-window (I have 2 Mozilla-profiles).
- Closing the last windows exits quick launch

- disabling quick launch in the prefs (including closing the prefs) and
re-enabling it, starts it again. But only until I close the the last window.

This worked for me with surely with rc1 and I thought with rc2, too, but I'm not
sure for rc2 anymore.

Anyway on rc1 (and perhaps rc3) I had a resident quick launch:
- if there was still a window open, the active profile was used
- if there was no window open, the profile-selection-window opened

I think this is how it should be!!

I'm nominating this for 1.0!!!! (otherwise we should disable quick launch
completely, because everything else is inconsistent and irritating)
Sorry!! I certainly meant:

"Anyway on rc1 (and perhaps rc2) I had a resident quick launch"

adding myself to CC
QuickLaunch will work with multiple profiles on trunk builds (nightlies)
On the branch there is a pref set to allow QuickLaunch only with a single 
profile
I have the same problems as the reporter on today's 1.0 branch build. I also
have 2 profiles (one Netscape and one Mozilla).

I think this should be fixed before 1.0 is released. I don't think Critical is
the correct resolution since its a major loss of function, but no dataloss.

CCing valeski@netscape.com
BTW: I have windows xp.
BTW, users who are willing to face the risk inherent in using QuickLaunch with
multiple profiles can turn this behavior off by manually setting a user pref in
their prefs.js file:

user_pref("browser.turbo.singleProfileOnly", false);
Bill: Do you think it would be a good idea to have someone put that in the
release notes for 1.0 since this might affect many users?
If there is a working bugfix on the trunk (comment #29 from Grace), I think we
should pull that fix to the 1.0-branch rather than adding a work-around to the
release-notes!!!

Is the target-milestone 1.2alpha still actual?
*** Bug 148631 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The work-around from Bill (#32) is not working if Mozilla crashes.

After a crash Quick-Launch is deactivated. 
It is only reactivated if
1. you logout and re-login or
2. go to the prefs and disable and enable quick launch
*** Bug 149805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 150280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 149827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 166916 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Well, I can't get rid off the feeling we're discussing 2 different problems
here... Anyway, this is my experience:

When I installed the 1.1alpha release, I noticed QuickLaunch restarting after I
closed the last window. I don't have this problem with 1.0 release, which I'm
currently using (I threw the 1.1alpha away partially due to this bug, because on
some slow PCs we have at school it was a real nusisance!).

Quite strange thing is I have _only_ _one_ _profile_ and never had more. However
it's not a default profile, which I have deleted and created a new one in
different location (perhaps this could be incorrectly taken as if I had more
than a single profile?).

The operating system is Windows NT Workstation ver. 4.0 with SP6 or SP6a, I
guess. I think Mozilla did the same thing on my home PC which has Windows 2000
with SP2.

I can't say anything about the problems with QuickLaunch not starting
automatically because I start it manually using shortcut that executes
"mozilla.exe -turbo".
Christian Schweer (<a href="#c36">comment #36</a>):

This is logical. QuickLaunch runs in the same process in which all Mozilla's
browser windows do. When Mozilla dies, it's just this process, which is dead. It
means you'll lose all your open browser windows including QuickLaunch. You can
restart it manually in a very easy way, you can even make yourself a shortuct to
do so: Just copy a shortcut created by the installer and add "-turbo" option to
it. The resulting shortcut should run something like this:
"P:\bin.Win\Mozilla\mozilla.exe -turbo" (change the path to the one you use...). 
Is there any relationship between this bug and bug 146340?

I think my experience should belong to the bug 146340, so sorry for the
incorrect posting... :-(
JITR,
I think this bug is different than 146340- that refers to the delay in icon
reappearing in system tray.  With this bug, icon does not reappear at all.  With
multiple profiles, Quick Launch is disabled on exit.

Another bug exists for single profile users that have to uncheck,check prefs
again to get QuickLaunch re-enabled. :(  bug 165743
Grace, thanx for your explanation, which just confirmed my mistake.

All: Sorry for the incorrect posting, again.
I am seeing multiple profiles working with Mozilla 1.2.1 as well as recent nightly

marking worksforme

please reopen if you continue to see problems
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
v
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Quicklaunch closes & must reload Mozilla when last window closed; only have one
profile, WinXP Home.
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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