191514 - Mozilla doesn't start correctly after uninstalling content packs

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Klem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Having installed the Russian then British localisation packs some (third party)
menu items remained Russian. Attempting to correct the problem I used "File" >
"Preferences"... to switch language to US, restarted Moz, switched back to
British and restarted again. Didn't help. Next I deleted both the (unwanted, I
thought) contented packs - US & Russian - then restarted Mozilla.
Among the effects I have noticed so far are...
-No captions on the "File" and "Edit" menus which are reduced to blank areas of
around 4x10 pixels.
-Missing entries from the "File" and "Edit" menus (including, of course,
"Preferences"!)
-Mozilla icon beside url bar no longer animated or linked to  mozilla.org
-History window loads but neither double clicking an entry nor right click >
"copy url" have any effect.
Probably many more :*(

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Russian then GB localisation packs
2. Use Mozilla for a few weeks, maybe switch language a few times but leave ste
to GB
3. Uninstall Russian and US content packs.
4. Restart Mozilla
Actual Results:  
Mozilla starts in an unusable state, displaying the following error message in
the status bar...

<broadcaster id="Communicator:WorkMode"
--^

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have worked, or refused to let me break it, or at least told me I
was uninstalling something essential!

Bug not fixed by reinstalling over previous installation.

Any thoughts for repair greatly appreciated (other than "uninstall Mozilla,
delete the app's folder, reinstall, spend the rest of your life reinstalling
spellchecker, other "projects", dictionaries, language packs, plugins, themes...")

Help!

Comment 1

[Stefan]

Have same Problem. No Pulldown-Menus and error-msg in status bar: <broadcaster
id="Communicator:WorkMode"

Tested with 2004-10-04 Builds of Latest-Trunk and 0.8 Trunk. I also tested
previous builds from 2004-10-01-06 to now. Always same result.

Tested 2004-10-04 Build (Latest-Trunk) on clean copy of winxp. Same Result

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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