207745 - Mozilla 1.4rc1 navigation buttons don't work, and you can't go 'back'

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[John Crowhurst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a; MultiZilla v1.4.0.1) Gecko/20030425
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a; MultiZilla v1.4.0.1) Gecko/20030425

The navigation buttons are greyed out when you navigate through pages, its like
there is no history being generated.

The back and forward options on the right click menu are also greyed out.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a website
2. click on a link
3. try to go back, you can't because you have no history.

Actual Results:  
You have no recorded history, its simply forgotten your past.

Expected Results:  
In Mozilla 1.3, which I've backed out to, you can navigate fine, and the back
navigation icon isn't greyed out.

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

does this happen on all pages?

Comment 2

[John Crowhurst]

When I installed it, I didn't notice it was doing it, until I wanted to go back
a page and couldn't.

I pulled down the bug report off the help menu, and the buttons remained greyed
out, and got my password wrong when I tried to log in, but couldn't go back to
fix it, simply because none of the navigation buttons would work.

On an unrelated note: Ignore the UserAgent, I think its got itself stuck (I'm
using Moz 1.3.1 from the download site)

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

did you uninstall the old Mozilla before installing the new? (you personal data
is NOT gone then)

Comment 4

[John Crowhurst]

Yes, uninstalled Mozilla 1.3, then installed Mozilla 1.4rc1, then uninstalled
when  I found that posting the bug would be difficult, and installed Mozilla 1.3.1

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

ok
now try to create a new profile..

Comment 6

[John Crowhurst]

Now that was a strange experience!

I created a new profile, and it changes the UserAgent to 1.3.1 properly, so I
thought I'd see if it was my profile that was causing 1.4rc1 to get upset, so I
uninstalled 1.3.1 and installed 1.4rc1

I created a new profile called default141 for this, and upon opening Mozilla
disappeared, even the quicklaunch disappeared. Mozilla would only work with the
first profile. Looks like there might be another bug there!

Upon removing 1.4rc1 and installing 1.3.1 it forgot there was a multizilla
plugin installed so I exited and it seems to have stabilised itself now,
although it looks different and still thinks its 1.4a on the default profile.

Comment 7

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

try to remove the /chrome folder (there are extensions and plugins) and the
localstore.rdf file (there are window positions) from the broken profile...

Comment 8

[John Crowhurst]

Looks like removing prefs.js helped a lot, it was in that file rather than the
localstore that was causing the problems.

Navigation works ok in 1.4rc1 now

Thanks