165671 - After install and first use the window never appears again

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 165199

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Swift]

The browser launches fine at the end of the install. If I close it, it *never* appears again, no matter how hard I try, and trust me, I've tried about 30 different methods.
Perhaps the window has a saved size of zero by zero, or perhaps it is placed outside the viewable area of my window. However, I don't get a tab in the start bar either, and that *is* worrying. I'm using W2K SP3 by the way.
I'm a website developer within IBM, and I need to be able to test my pages with all popular browsers. It's getting tedious having to re-install absolutely every time I want to run a test!
Even if I uninstall Mozilla and Netscape 7 the re-installed Mozilla has remembered my proxy settings and skin. So perhaps this is caused by a setting that is not deleted by the uninstall?

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Repotert, what is your build-id ? (see Help -> About Mozilla).

Also, make sure that you don't share profiles between Mozilla and Netscape. Both
will store your setting in your profile (in C:\Documents and Settings\[Windows
Login Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[Profile Name]\[random
string].slt\ ), that's why it was remembered after an install.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

1,$s/Repotert/Reporter/g

sorry ...

Comment 3

[John S. Giltner, Jr.]

Installed the latest nightly unders Windows NT SP6a.  Mozilla never launches
sucesffuly after the install.  Instead of getting the window to select a profile
I get a popup windows that contains text only describing what a profile is.  If
I close the windows (click on X in upper right corner) nothing happens after
that.  If I attempt to restart mozialla I get a single window that has "ALERT"
in the title bar.  The Window can not be resized to see what in it.  All I can
do is close it.

Comment 4

[John S. Giltner, Jr.]

Opps, did not page down through all reported bugs today.  My problem is bug
165199, which I found by seeing BUG 165720.

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165199 ***

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Verifying dupe.

pi