190004 - Mozilla 1.3a dies trying to open new compose window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Buckley Collum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

I am trying to compose a new mail message.
Using either the Compose button or the menu item (new message) result in Mozilla
chewing up the CPU for a few minutes before the process dies (if I have not
killed it already...).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open mail/news reader
2.click 'Compose' button to create new message
3.Mozilla whirls the cpu, then dies.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla dies

Expected Results:  
should have opened a new window for composing a message.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Can you please close mozilla and rename the file XUl.MFASL in your mozilla profile ?

Comment 2

[Buckley Collum]

Yes, this works.
Renaming XUL.mfasl solved the problem.
After renaming, compose window opens fine.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you please compress the old file and send it to [e-mail] ?

Thanks


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

Comment 4

[Buckley Collum]

The corrupt/old XUL.mfasl file has been sent.