193589 - Program has an error when starting and wont save settings after even after two clean installs.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 193638

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt Razincka]

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

Here is an exact transcription of the error I am recieving.

An error occurred reading the startup configuration file. Please contact your
administrator. 
line 53: SyntaxError: unterminated string literal. user_pref("wa

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the program
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I get the error noted.

Comment 1

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

->browser-general

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

you can do this :
first locate your mozilla user-profile (see the release notes for the path) and
after that close mozilla including quicklaunch

a) rename the file "prefs.js" in your mozilla profile to "prefs.old" and rename
"prefs.bak" to "prefs.js"

or

b) open prefs.js in a text-editor and try to fix (and possible delete) the
corrupt line

c) create a new mozilla user-profile.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193638 ***

Comment 3

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

verified. reporter, please follow the described steps to repair the problem.