191665 - mozilla acting strange

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Marv Waschke]

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

Sorry about the vague summary, but I have a collection of flakey symptoms on two
intel boxes, both running W2K, NS 7.01. Mozilla.exe does not terminate when I
exit. Quick Launch is NOT enabled. Sometimes Mozilla, not NS, gets into a state
in which Mozilla will not start: it hangs on the splash, racking up CPU time. I
have to kill it from Task Manager. Rebooting helps sometimes, not always. It is
related to starting NS, at least it always happens after running NS, which I do
to access NS and aol mail. Right now, Mozilla has decided not to display mail or
help when I click them. I suspect a profile problem, but I don't know how to
debug it. A couple weeks ago, I wiped the Mozilla/Netscape from one box as
completely as I knew how-- did not search the registry-- and rebuilt my profile.
Problem back in days. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Andreas Kunz]

Marv, please report only one problem per bug!

The hang on splash is probably a duplicate of bug 169777.
Rename the file XUL.mfl in your profile directory and look if
Mozilla still does not start.

Do you share a profile between Netscape and Mozilla? This WILL cause problems.
Stop doing so.

And please search http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html for
the word "three"...

Comment 2

[Steve Simms]

First part most likely a duplicate.  Second part too vague.

If you are still getting these problems, please try to post a more specific bug.