159592 - Freeze after setting as default browser [Win 98]

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140995

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Edward P. Sager]

Currently, IE is my default browser.  I have done what is necessary to cause
Mozilla to query me on its startup whether I want to make Mozilla the default
browser.  I press the Yes button, and then Mozilla freezes/hangs.  When I push
Control-Alt-Del, I see that Mozilla is not responding.  Therefore, I have to End
Task, of course, causing Mozilla to close.

The only way I can get to use Mozilla after I am asked if I want to make it the
Default Browser is to press Cancel.

Currently, I cannot get Mozilla to be the Default Browser.

Comment 1

[Wesha]

   Reporter: could you please  read  the  Bug  Writing  Guidelines  at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html to see  the
kinds of information we need in a bug report. Please report back  with
more information (like BuildID and steps to reproduce)  after  reading
those guidelines and consider using  the  Bugzilla  Helper  to  report
future bugs.

   The Helper can be found at
   http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html



   Unfortunately, we were unable to reproduce this  behavior
of Mozilla. Although, some details in your bug report gave us  a  hint
that it may be related to the fact that newer builds  of  Mozilla  may
incorrectly understand the configuration information of  the  previous
builds.
   We would really appreciate if you try a  clean  install  of  recent
Mozilla version that you can obtain at:

   ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/

   "Clean install" means that Mozilla should be  uninstalled  and  its
home directory (usually located at C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla
in Windows based systems) should be erased  manually  along  with  its
contents. After doing that,  please  install  Mozilla  again  and  try
reproducing the bug again.

Thank you!

Comment 2

[Wesha]

*** Bug 163393 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Wesha]

==> NEW

Reason: same problem encountered in bug 163393.

Comment 4

[Samuel Seay]

I have just encountered this problem with the released v1.1 of Mozilla. I had
Mozilla 1.1a installed and never got the quesiton asked about making it default.
After uninstalling 1.1a and installing 1.1, I got the question and ended up
hanging mozilla.

I uninstalled 1.1, wiped the Mozilla install directory and the profile directory
and reinstalled and still had the same problem. I am administrator on the system.

OS: Windows 2000 Professional with service pack 2
Mem: 256MB
HD Space: Plenty

The make default for mail reading also results in a lockup of Mozilla. clicking
No or Cancel results in Mozilla continuing to run. I do use quick launch,
disabling quick launch did not affect it though.

Comment 5

[David Castro-Diephouse]

I also get this behavior using Mozilla 1.1

This is a fresh install on a new box.  OS: Windows 2000 Professional with
service pack 2, just like the last guy.

I also get the hanging behavior if I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced ->
System, and just hit OK without making any changes to the default settings
(Default settings are: All file types checked except for BMP and ICO; all
protocols checked).

Comment 6

[Wesha]

From personal mail:
From: <[e-mail]>

> I haven't had time to follow the full list you gave, but I do have some
> additional info:
> 1) Netscape 7 has the same problem
> 2) By any chance, do all the people with this problem have Macaffee?  Is
> WebScanX an active process on their machines?


Original Message:

Comment 7

[Samuel Seay]

I do have McAfee and WebScanX is in the background. When I checked Mozilla, it
was somehow set as the default browser which seemed strange as I had disabled
the testing of it being default so it would stop asking. I had IE override what
is the default and checked Mozilla which then said it was not default
(completely closing Mozilla including the quick launch). Telling Mozilla to be
the default did not lock up.

The change? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I have not applied any patches, I have
only rebooted quite a few times but I tried rebooting before which did not solve
the issue. I do not know what caused it to hang nor can I re-cause it to hang.

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140995 ***

Comment 9

[Daniel Wang]

except for this bug, all bugs marked as duplicate of bug 140995 are for
Windows 2000 and XP. Reporter (Edward P. Sager) are you using Win98
or Win2k/XP ?

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 196139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Daniel Wang]

reporters (Edward P. Sager & onederer), can you verify the bug with a
post feb-22 build to see if the bug is still present?