196151 - sidebar doesn't load tabs if home page (set to a file on local filesystem) is missing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Victor Ott]

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

if the home page or one of the home page tabs is a local file, and this file
doesn't exist when starting mozilla, then no sidebar tab is displayed.
to force display of sidebar tabe, disable and then reenable one of the sidebar
tabs, for example bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set homepage to eg "file:///dummy"
2. restart mozilla
3. look at your sidebar

Actual Results:  
active sidebar tabs should be displayed

Expected Results:  
no sidebar tab is being displayed

Comment 1

[Victor Ott]

workaround for refreshing sidebar: press F9 twice.

Comment 2

[Chase Tingley]

WFM 030821 trunk linux cvs
-> Sidebar

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->default contacts

Comment 4

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

WFM 1.5 RC2/WinXP