164568 - builds around 20020818 are unstable

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alexander Rabtchevich]

Latest night builds are terrible unstable. Something has happened with the code.
Now Mozilla crashes sometimes or stops working. The last one acts as this: the
Mozilla animated icon at the right of the screen disappears, and browser stop's
saving pages - menu and popup menu still works but it do nothing for saving. And
if I exit the program after this ocassion, the program still exists in memory
(task manager shows its process).

It's impossible to get some instructions to reproduce this behaviour, but I
haven't observed such things for a long time. Sorry for undefinite bug description.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I confirm that unstability.
I sent talkbacks 
TB9677353W (datend 21.08.02 17:15)
TB9677346E (datend 21.08.02 17:15)
I had rather often crashes when I closed a part of mozilla (as "mail" or
"browser") or mozilla completely

Comment 2

[Owen Smigelski]

i had the same problems around the same build.  i fixed it by completely
removing any mozilla builds, deleting the mozilla.org folder from program files,
as well as any application data files from the account i was using (in my case
administrator).  these strange errors happen when 'upgrading' to newer builds.

Comment 3

[Alexander Rabtchevich]

Before unpacking new build from zip, I always delete the folder with previous
build and clear cache folder. But in this particular case it doesn't help.

Comment 4

[Owen Smigelski]

in addition to the program folder, delete any mozilla folders that may contain
application data.  they may be hidden or system folders.  in win2k it's
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data" where administrator
is the current user name.  there should be something similar in win nt.

Comment 5

[Alexander Rabtchevich]

Why should I delete D:\Mozilla_mail\... with all my data and settings
(bookmarks, history, mail, newsgroups...)? It's nonsence.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

You don't need to delete your profile (unless it gets corrupted).  Just the
directory where you install Mozilla (%Program Files%/mozilla.org/mozilla) and
you may copy your plugins directory to a safe location and put it back into the
new installation.