188881 - A click on "Preferences" makes Mozilla crash (Freeze)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Tobias Heyl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.2.1 english version straight from the website (Gecko/20021130)

If you try to open the Preferences-Panel in Mozilla 1.2.1 the Browser freezes
and can't be activated again. The browser will be useless unless you restart it.
Another Click on the Preferences-Link causes the same problem again and again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Choose 'Edit'
3. Click on 'Edit'
4. Choose 'Preferences'
5. Click on 'Preferences'
Actual Results:  
Mozilla freezes and can't be closed regular. The Task Manager has to be opend to
close Mozilla manually. Re-installing Mozilla was unsuccessful unfortunately as
well.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have opened the Preferences-Panel without freezing instead

No error message, no other hint. Just freezes ...

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Try removing the XUl.mfl in your profile directory.

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

if you can rename XUL.mfl to XUL.bak it can be helpful too.
This is bug 169777.

Comment 3

[Patrick]

duping to bug 169777 per comment 2

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

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

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