176424 - sidebar items are missing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195213

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[chris winkler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/2002101612

very frequently, the sidebare tabs dont' show up, nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.OPen sidebar, 
2.look for tabs like history, etc
3.nothing there

Actual Results:  
missing history & other tabs is sidebar

Expected Results:  
history & other tabs should be there.

sometimes, when I open a new window, I can see the history tab, but most of the
time there is nothing there

Comment 1

[sujay]

tracy can you reproduce on Mac ?

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

I can reproduce this issue with a existing profile using the 2002-10-23-08
trunk. However, if I create a new profile, the sidebar appears properly using
this profile. Tested under 10.2.1.

Comment 3

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

I have on a few random occassions seen the sidebar on mac appear blank. I could 
not reliably reproduce it though.  A simple restart of the app brought back the 
sidebar.

Comment 4

[William Cloherty]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111 with new profile.

My Sidebar ends up being blank with the following conditions:
    1)The sidebar status is checked in the View:Show/Hide:Sidebar menu 
    2)The sidebar tray is closed at shutdown 
    3)Mozilla is restarted
    4)I open the sidebar tray

Reproducible: Always

Work Around:
   #1
    1) With the sidebar tray open.
    2) Open the Sidebar's Tabs menu.
    3) Uncheck a tab.
    4) Open the Sidebar's Tabs menu again.
    5) Check the same tab.
   #2
    1) Have the sidebar tray open before shutting Mozilla down. 

I have tried this with both Classic and Modern themes.

Comment 5

[William Cloherty]

A few more observations:

1) Step 3) in the first work around of comment #4 could also be "Check an
unchecked tab."

If tne sidebar tray is closed at startup and a new window is openned the sidebar
in the new window will be visable but the original window's will remain blank.

 

Comment 6

[Joseph Delaney]

Is this a duplicate of Bug 134604 ?

Comment 7

[Ray]

This bug has been reported @ http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119975
and is therefore a duplicate to Bug 119975

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195213 ***