194443 - When I make a certain menu selection, Mozilla stops responding, consumes 100% resources, and starts consuming memory until I kill the application.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[ombobsmo]

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

This fist happened last week (week of 10 Feb 2003) when I tried to select "Mail
& NewGroups" from the "Window" menu.  Mozilla stopped responding.  I then
checked the task manager.  Mozilla was consuming all the cpu it could and the
memory kept climbing until I killed it via the task manager, or the task bar
(right click, close).  I tried this several times with the same result. I also
rebooted the pc multiple times.  I tried just reinstalling Mozilla, but that did
not succeed.  I then uninstalled and reinstalled.  That also did not work.  I
had to uninstall, and then delete all files related to Mozilla from my computer.
 I thought it may have been some type of garbage mail I recieved or something
related to e-mail.  However, today, 21 Feb 2003, I tried to select
"Preferences.." from the "Edit" menu and I am experiencing the same problem.  I
have tried this a few times with the same result.  I cannot get to preferences.
 I have tried waiting multiple minutes for the window to pop up, but it does
not.  I don't know what I have done to make this problem occur again.  Once the
bug happens, though, it does not go away.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See description.
I just have to:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Mouse to "Edit" and then select "Preferences"

Actual Results:  
See description

Expected Results:  
Preferences window should appear.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please read the buglist that you get if you open the "bug reporting page".
It's #2 on the list :

"Corrupted XUL.mfl / XUL.mfasl / XUL FastLoad File freezes/hangs (not crashes)
Mozilla/MailNews/etc (when opening Edit > Preferences, or at "random")"

Doesn't that match your problem ?
close mozilla and delete "xul.mfl" in your mozilla-user-profile.




*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169777 ***

Comment 2

[ombobsmo]

Yes, this solved my problem.  Thank you.  Sorry, I thought I'd searched well 
enough to find no duplicates.