193287 - unable to start mozilla outside of installation directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193189

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Timothy Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030213
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030213

Executing mozilla.exe from a location outside of installation directory causes
Mozilla to abort execution without any error messages.  This causes problems
with the double-clicking of files associated with Mozilla -- the browser cannot
be invoked to view the desired files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Under DOS Prompt, change to the Mozilla installation directory ("C:\Program
Files\Mozilla.org\Mozilla" by default)
2.  Execute "mozilla.exe"
3.  Notice that Mozilla is started as expected.
4.  Exit Mozilla completely (including Quick Launch)
5.  Under DOS Prompt, change to any other location other than the installation
location (eg:  C:\)
6.  Execute "C:\Program Files\Mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe"
Actual Results:  
Mozilla is not started.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should be started, showing a new browser window.

I believe the symptoms started appearing about a week ago, but I never tried to
track down the specific cause until today.

This bug severly affects the usability of Mozilla, because it nullifies the file
association feature of Windows for Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Eugene Savitsky]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193189 ***