187160 - (There_can_be_only_1) Browser unable to open more than one window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144027

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[michael ibison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

This is a repeat/ confirmation of bug # 7672 reported on the Mac. The problem
seems to be environment / machine specific because the same Mozilla version on
other machines does not suffer from this problem. Bug is a complete failure to
display more than one Browser window at a time. Open new window (right button)
is ignored, Ctrl N is ignored, second invocation of executable is ignored. Upon
exit of single Browser instance, Mozilla then fails to open ANY windows. Task
manager shows Mozilla is still running. Killing that instance then permits
opening jsut one a fresh browser window. The problem therefore is not just an
inability to open multiple instances, but a failure to exit properly from the
single instance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Browser
2.Ctrl N, or Right-click "open in new window", or double-left-click Mozilla icon
3.

Actual Results:  
No new window appears.

Expected Results:  
Open a new windwo

Exit from the lone Mozilla instance leaves mozzila running according to the task
manager. This instance must be killed before Mozilla can be re-invoked.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 144027?

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Please delete all files in profile/chrome and try it again.

Comment 3

[michael ibison]

[e-mail] suggested 
"Please delete all files in profile/chrome and try it again." 
There is no profile/chrome on my system. The only ../profile is in defaults.
Removing that does not cure the problem. 
But thanks for the suggestion to try deleting potentially guilty items.
In the end I found that removing
chrome\overlayinfo\communicator\content\overlays.rdf
solves the problem - allows me to open multiple browser windows.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

you MUST have a mozilla profile folder. (see the release notes for the path but
you know that already since you read the release notes before you filed this bug).

-> wfm

Comment 5

[michael ibison]

I restored ...\Mozilla\chrome\overlayinfo\communicator\content\overlays.rdf
Problem returned. Then I deleted contents of
C:\Documents and Settings\[user login]\Application Data
\Mozilla\Profiles\default\[random string].slt\chrome
namely chrome.rdf and a skypilot.jar (skin) file. Deleting the latter had no
effect. But delete of chrome.rdf cures the problem (a new chrome.rdf created
automatically). 

Looks to my (relatively uneducated) eye as if the references to the skypilot
skin in the old chrome rdf were responsible.

Thank you Matti

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

thanks

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144027 ***