174321 - browser crashes and trashed mail setting

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 170539

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[david.cussans]

Using Mozilla 1.2a on RH linux 7.3, installed from RPM's 

Filling out 'web survey ( forms based )

Brower crashes.

Restart browser. Start mail/news window and get prompted by new-account wizard.
Account information lost.

Has happened more than once. Makes Mozilla mail pretty unusable

Comment 1

[Faxmaster]

This has happened to me on Win2k.  Whenever a really bad crash happens (forcing
a reboot), preferences are lost, including mail/news settings.  I was never able
to pinpoint the problem to report a bug, but it happened 90% of the time when
Java was running.

Comment 2

[greer]

crashes -> critical

Reporter, can you reliably recreate a crash that duplicates this behavior? If so
please list the steps and any necessary settings or likely URL's. Please also
list any Talkback incident ID numbers for your crashes.

Comment 3

[david.cussans]

Hi,
        I have lost my mail settings about four times. As far as I can
remember, each time was associated with mozilla crashing. No talkback
screen came up when Mozilla went down.

        There doesn't seem to be a particular URL that triggers the crash.
I installed Mozilla from a set of RPM's ( names like
mozilla-1.2a-2002091314_trunk.i386.rpm ) I am not sure if these had
talkback enabled.

   I am not using Mozilla-mail at the moment ( it got too tedious
re-entering my details ), but I will have another go and keep better
notes. I will try de-installing Mozilla re-installing from the "standard"
installer and make sure that talkback is enabled. There is a danger of
course that this will make the problem go away .....


        Cheers,
                David

Comment 4

[Andrew Hagen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193638 ***

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wrong dupe :-)

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 170539 ***

Comment 7

[Vedran Miletic]

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