210310 - Preferences->Appearance (Mail) ignored when profile manager is used

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Leo A. Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313

Tried to set preferences to open Mozilla with mail/newsgroups only, not browser.
It opens browser only, never mail/newsgroups.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Mozilla Profile Manager
2. Select any profile
3.
Actual Results:  
Voila - only the browser window opens, even though Preferences is set to open
only mail/news


Expected Results:  
Open mail/news window, not browser window

This is quite irritating. Mozilla is very slow on my machine and this leads to
an extra 45-75 seconds each time I want to check my mail.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

WFM in W32 20030612. Confirmed broken in gcc Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5;
en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509. Current gcc OS/2 nightlies were useless last I
checked a week ago. Not tested in vacpp 1.4rc2.

For OS/2, put this in your startup object(s) as a workaround:

-mail -P profilename

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

This is cross platform.

If you use the profile manager to start a profile, the fact that Mail is set to
start as the default application is ignored.

I recreated this on Windows 1.4.

Comment 3

[Mauro Innocenti]

I confirmed the problem under RedHat 7.3 and RedHat 9 but only using
the contributed RPMs from mozilla ftp site.

The standard binary distribution (.tar.gz) work fine.

Comment 4

[Mauro Innocenti]

The problem persist in mozilla 1.4.1 rpm's from Rawhide

Comment 5

[andré]

Confirmed in Mozilla ms-windows 1.4
In my case, use several profiles, and automatically select the user profile with
the -P command line option.
Preferences/appearance/launch is configured to BOTH browser and email, and only
the browser opens.
Also very irritating, as Moz takes 1 or 2 minutes to load on my machine, loading
the email module + telecharging the mail takes several minutes more.  I used to
simply invoke Moz and do something else for 5 minutes.

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(Filter "spam" on 'prefs-nobody-20080612'.)