184538 - Preferences freezing because of broken XUL.mfl (fastload)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Frederic Bezies]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021209
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021209

Prefs panel can be freezed. Just follow steps to reproduce freezing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open preferences panel
2.Click on an option (for example Privacy and Security)
3.Click on each subline
4.Try to close tree in order to see another pref


Actual Results:  
freezing

Expected Results:  
mozilla working.

clean install. CVS based build (all patchs up to 13:04 included).

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Have you tried to delete xul.mfl ?

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

adam, would this be related to bug 179573?

Comment 3

[Frederic Bezies]

Shit :-/

You've got it !

Something corrupts xul.mfl.

Closing my bug as invalid.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

many ppl see a xul.mfl corruption in many bugs recently.
I hope someone is debugging this fuck fastload file hangs..
 

Comment 5

[Frederic Bezies]

You're right. Since a week, I have deleted nearly 20 times my xul.mfl file :-/

I'm fed up with it :-|

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 184674 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

new dupe collector bug :-)

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 185364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

not invalid unless i can find a dupe.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

found the dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169777 ***

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup