144578 - Opening mail and newsgroups crashes Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Blake Learmonth]

With the browser open, either clicking the envelope icon or opening Mail and
Newsgroups from the "Window" menu causes Mozilla to "unexpectedly quit." Started
happening after installing the post security alert latest build.

Comment 1

[Blake Learmonth]

This is an OSX / mozilla install problem somehow related to permissions 
in OS X.  Opening Mail and Newsgroups works fine when opened as 
"administrator" although not as user with administrative privileges.  One 
can't just drag the Mozilla folder to the hard drive as the instructions 
indicate.To be accessable to users it, or a copy, has to be dropped into 
the "Applications" file.  "Fix" would be to change the install instructions to: " 
just drop this file into the Applications folder on the Macintosh HD"

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Blake, can you attach a Crash Report?

Comment 3

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

You sure this is OS X-only? I'm experiencing the same problem on Win32, using 
2002-05-18-08.

Comment 4

[Corey Lubin]

I am experiencing what seems to be the same thing on Win32 as well.

OS: WinXP
Mozilla Build: 2002051008
Talkback ID's:
	TB6534254Q (first crash; had enigmail)
	TB6679434Y (enigmail  still installed)
	TB6679548Q (enigmail manually uninstalled)
	TB6679835W (new profile, canceled account wizard)
	TB6679871G (new profile, finished account wizard)
Reproducability: Always

It happens no matter if it's opened from the browser or directly from Start 
Menu.

It happens whether it's a new profile or not. (I tried opening my existing 
profile, opening Mail & News Reader, it crashed...)

It also happens if it's a new account or not. (I tried creating a new profile, 
opening Mail & News Reader, canceling the account wizard, it crashed. I tried 
creating a new profile, opening Mail & News Reader, completing the account 
wizard, it crashed.)

Note: I installed Enigmail (component @ mozdev) and restarted mozilla just 
before experiencing first crash. I have since followed the instructions for 
manual uninstallation of Enigmail and the crash still occurs. Enigmail may not 
have anything to do with it, as I don't normally use Mozilla's mailer (Enigmail 
created the interest in it, and thus wouldn't have noticed the crash before 
trying enigmail) and certainly never tried using it on that build.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Can someone attach a recent stack trace or TalkBack ID?

Comment 6

[Blake Learmonth]

This is not happening any more with build (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS
X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826)installed in the Applications folder not right
on the hard drive. OS X last non-Jaguar update

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

Blake, do you experience the crash if you run Mozilla from outside the
Applications folder again?

Comment 8

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

--> worksforme.  please reopen if you have more info.

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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