189727 - mozilla starts infinite instances

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Timothy Armstrong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

After logging onto win 98 (or also "escapeing" out of the logon) I hit the
mozilla shortcut (either browser or mail or both), which I have located in my
taskbar, before all the other progs on my machine that autostartup are finished
loading. These include kazaa, icq and seti. This brings up a very small window
bar (just the bar with the "minimize", "maximize" and "close" buttons) and
mozilla starts spawning multiple instances of itself. The window buttons appear
in the taskbar and become more and more until finally the systems resources are
completely bogged down. I run a 700Mhz Athlon with 512 MB RAM. It is possible to
 ctrl+alt+delete into the task manager if done so early enough and kill the
mozilla process which closes ALL Mozilla windows and then let's you resume
normally including mozilla if it is restarted. I did not have this problem with
releases prior to 1.2 but as of that release (i just installed over 1.1) this
has constantly been the case. It's not a horrible bug as it's easily
circumvented but I figured you'd want to know anyway:)
Keep up the great work guys! You rock!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot system
2.log on
3.click mozilla shortcut before other programs have completely started

Actual Results:  
mozilla spawned itself until it ran out of resources or was killed via taskmanager.

Expected Results:  
It should have just opened the browser window

Comment 1

[Pablo]

I'm having the same problem in a Win98 Toshiba laptop 

Comment 2

[Pablo]

Problem seems to be fixed in Mozilla 1.3 

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

Timothy, can you confirm this is problem is solved with Mozilla 1.3?

Comment 4

[Timothy Armstrong]

The problem seems to be solved in 1.3:)
Good job team!