186329 - try to open "preferences" Mozilla locks, CPU is 100 %, memory fills constantly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Matthias Fonfara]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I can not open "preferences" any more. Mozilla seems to be in an endless loop.
CPU power is at 100 % and the memory fills slowly, but constantly. It is no
problem to kill the Mozilla processes. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click Edit
2.click Preferences...
3.Mozilla locks
Actual Results:  
look at Details

Expected Results:  
showing the preferences dialog

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

delete profile/xul.mfasl while mozilla is not running

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

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup