172562 - default browser setting lock-up after mozilla directory move

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 140995

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Eyal Rozenberg]

(with build 2002100317)

After moving my Mozilla installation from some directory to another (e.g.
Program Files\Netscape\Mozilla to Program Files\Mozilla) - by reinstall, not by
simply copying the files - I can start all components, but when I start the
browser I get 

'mozilla is not currently set as your default browser' with the option of making
it my default: yes/no/cancel.

Note that mozilla _is_indeed_ my default browser.

If I press 'yes', mozilla locks up; if I press 'no' or 'cancel' I can continue
browsing/using mailnews/etc. , but if I enter the preferences-advanced-system
dialog and press 'apply' (without changing anything) mozilla again locks up
(with the preferences window remaining open).

Not sure whether this is always reproducible (I have also made a few H/W changes
to my system at about the same time as the move so some weird Win2k
auto-initiated re-configuration activity could have happened).

Comment 1

[timeless]

law

Comment 2

[Eyal Rozenberg]

After setting IE as the default browser and installing mozilla again (build
2002-10-15-08) everything went back to normal, i.e. when I press 'yes' in the
'make default browser' dialog it works the way it should.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

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