204034 - Lock at Startup with 1.4a

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195600

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Salvatore Cagliari]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When I start a fresh install of Mozilla 1.4a on WinXP SP1, it is blocked with
100% CPU. The only way to make it run is to change the priority of the
mozilla.exe process to high or to kill it.

Verion 1.3 is O.K. .

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 1.4a
2. Start Mozilla
3.

Actual Results:  
Lock of Mozilla during startup

Expected Results:  
Start much more faster without using 100%

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Did you overwrite your previous mozilla installation ? If so, this bug is invalid.

Comment 2

[Patrick]

Comment 1 is correct. 

If you have a previous Mozilla installation you'll need to uninstall it AND
manually clear out the Mozilla folder. If you haven't done that, this is a dupe
from bug 195600. You can read the discussion in bug 200623 for more information.

Marking it as a dupe. If you think you see another issue, reopen this bug.




*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195600 ***

Comment 3

[parish]

This bug should be re-opened.

Firstly, this bug reports Moz locking up sucking ~100% CPU, whereas bug 195600
is about Moz *crashing*; not the same thing IMO.

Secondly, I can reproduce this reliably both in Moz 1.4 with a new profile and
Firebird 0.6 with a fresh install.

I *always* zap mozilla.org\Mozilla between installs and Firebird has been
installed for the first time ever on this machine.

The cause is an empty, apart from the comments, prefs.js

If I copy a prefs.js from another profile both Moz and FB start fine.

Delete the contents of prefs.js and the problem returns.

As well as sucking ~100% CPU, both display "Resolving www.mozilla.org" in the
status bar and the memory usage continues to rise.

Comment 4

[parish]

OK, I've found the cause, or perhaps more accurately, a fix/workround.

If this line is added to the empty prefs.js file both Moz and Firebird startup fine

user_pref("browser.bookmarks.added_static_root", true);

Comment 5

[parish]

Bah! forget it. What I'm seeing is bug 201381. Hadn't associated the problem
with IE Favourites.