195892 - crash when forwarding multiple e-mail documents

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 205530

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Dietmar May]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

When attempting to forward more than two documents simultaneously, windows open
for each forwarded document, the windows Z-order thrashes for a few seconds, and
then Mozilla crashes.

The first two of the newly opened windows (first 2 forwarded messages) appear to
populate correctly; the rest of the messages remain empty, with (I believe) an
Untitled name in the title bar. If I do this with only two messages, it works
correctly.

The messages do not have any attachments, and appear to be plain-text formatted.
 
FYI, the messages have been moved from the Inbox to another folder. My mail-news
has three accounts set up. My guess is that neither of these is related to the
problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select three or more messages in the main mail-news message pain.
2. Press the forward button.
Actual Results:  
Multiple windows open in rapid succession, (apparently) one for each message.
The first two messages appear to populate, the windows thrash around in z-order,
and then mozilla shuts down without any warning or message (within 3 or 4 seconds).

Expected Results:  
Create all message windows without crashing.

Comment 1

[Torben]

Probably bug 169777 
Close the program, and delete the "XUL.mfl/XUL.mfasl/XUL FastLoad File" file
from your profile folder. (this is fixed in newer builds BTW)

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

Comment 2

[Dietmar May]

NOT Resolved!

Sorry, this doesn't seem to be a dup of bug 169777.

Perhaps I can politely suggest that before closing a bug report, someone contact
the reporting person and verify that the the expected "fix" really works??

Thanks.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

Possible dup of bug 193351

Comment 4

[Dietmar May]

This one may indeed be due to the same problem as bug 193351, but I can't
duplicate that bug's reported behavior. So, this is NOT a dup of bug 193351; but
the two may somehow be related.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

hmm i can't repro this bug. Only one window opens when i select may messages and
click forward-button. Current trunk CVS, Linux.

Comment 6

[Torben]

Dietmar, your build of mozilla is very old. Please see if you can reproduce this
in a newer build <ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.3>.

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

Also: Please tell whether you have any mail-related addons installed, and which
theme you use. Forwarding - regardless of how many mails you have selected -
should only open ONE window.

Comment 8

[Hervé]

this bug is still in mozilla 1.4rc2 and it's highly visible : select 2 or more
mails, hit the "forward" button and it crashes. could not be easier...

please don't release 1.4 final with this bug !

ps to R.K.Aa : you wrote "Forwarding - regardless of how many mails you have
selected - should only open ONE window."
no, when "forward messages : inline" is selected in the prefs, it opens one
window per selected mail (and then it crashes before anything is displayed in
those windows...)

Comment 9

[Jean-Pierre Matsumoto]

Mozilla 1.4RC 2 Theme Classic : worksforme
Mozilla 1.4RC 2 Theme Orbit 3+1 0.0.7.1 : worksforme also

Please note that after selection of two (or more) messages, right click on them
doesn't permit to forward inline. The only choice is "Forward as Attachments",
even with related preference set to "Inline".

Behaviors of right-click and Forward button are different. Is it intentional ?

Comment 10

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Using Mozilla Nightly ID 2003062205 on Linux with modern theme: I could not
reproduce this bug.

I selected several messages and clicked on the Forward button: 1 e-mail compose
window opened with the selected message shown in the attachment list. Sending
the mails confirms that the attachments were attached correctly.

I also selected several messages and went through the menu Message>Forward
as>Inline. It then opened the same amount of compose windows as I had selected
messages. The message was correctly inserted.

During all this process, I didn't experience a single crash.

Reporter, did you manage to reproduce this bug with a fresh profile?

Comment 11

[Markus Multrus]

I can reproduce this every time I try... using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030620, composing plain text messages

Comment 12

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

I can't reproduce this on a recent cvs build in linux. Can you please use a
talkback enabled build, and submit an incident id? thanks.

Comment 13

[chris roddy]

with a dirty (older) profile dating to 1.2.1 I get the crash. with a clean
profile it works just fine. reporter, try with a clean profile. safe to consider
this bug closed.

Comment 14

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Is this a dupe of bug 205530? (Yes, I know this one came first, but that one's 
already been confirmed.)

Comment 15

[Tomas Krause]

*** Bug 209128 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205530 ***