150521 - Internet explorer now crashing

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Tomkins]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) 
Gecko/20020530

I have a fairly fresh insatll of Windows 2000, barely 2 months old.
Everything I use was up to date as per the Microsoft Update function.
I am a student, currently studying Java Programming and development and my 
platform has been very stable this past two months without experiencing any 
crashes with Internet Explorer.
Since installing Mozzilla V1.0, Internet Explorer has crashed 8 times in the 
last two days. Somehting tinstalled by Mozilla is interfering with the corretc 
operation of Internet Explorer, Version 5.5
It seems to happen randomly, even on non multi media site, although I'd hazard 
that it happens more often with Multi-media sites.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Even the removal of mozzilla did not return the system back to stability.

Do you have a list of all the files that get replaced so that I can backtrack 
and repair my system?

I am not a fan of software that corrupts what I already have in place, and 
another install of WIndows 2000 is not in the cards today.

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

--> Browser-general for further triage. We don't want stuff like this to happen.
Critical severity. 

Reporter, it might be Java. Have you installed Sun Java? If you have, remove it
with Add/Remove Programs. Then, download a new copy from http://java.sun.com/.
Install it. During the installation, tell Sun Java to make itself work with
Netscape 6, but not Internet Explorer. 

Does that solve the problem? 

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> invalid

Mozilla doesn't install any DLL files in your OS system directory. 
(Only Mapi32.dll for the default Mail application)

Registry settings :
Only for the default File Types and URLs.

You can download a Zip based build, extract it in a directory and run it !
Mozilla will replace Mapi32.dll if select Mozilla Mailnews as default Mail
application. (and that should be only a problem with Outlook).


No other system files are touched !!

All Mozilla based Profile data is stored under win2k :
C:\Documents and Settings\[Windows Login Name]\Application
Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[Profile Name]\[random string].slt\

(this directory is still there and will not removed with uninstalling but this
will not cause a problem)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

BTW: 
It's possible that you installed JRE1.4 with mozilla but JRE1.4 is not coming
with mozilla itself, you must install it as additional package.
It's possible that IE use now this JVM instead of the MS crap JVM