191075 - Preferences Category pane empty for users other than Administrator (who installed).

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

After Administrator on Win2K Pro installed Moz 1.2.1, and set various
preferences, a different user logged on and was able to run Moz, but
when he went to set his own preferences, only those on the base page
of Preferences were accessible because the Category pane was blank.
This was not the case for Administrator, both before and after; he
could see the tree in the Category pane just fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Moz 1.2.1 as Administrator on Win2K.
2. Change login to another user (may have Admin privileges or not).
3. Look at Edit | Preferences dialog; Category pane is empty.

Actual Results:  
Emptiness.

Expected Results:  
Shown same tree as for Administrator.

All defaults, new system, Athlon XP 2K, 1GB RAM, 60GB IDE disk.

Comment 1

[timeless]

are you using ntfs and does mozilla have interesting acls?

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Long time no response, very old version -> Could be resolved IMO.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

Resolving as WFM. Feel free to reopen the bug if you can reproduce the problem
with a current build/release.