210672 - 1.4 doesn't start after several browser freezes

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[gedscho]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4rc3

- installed 1.4 rc3. After using it for several hours and several of the usual
freezes&kills later nothing happens when the mozilla button is clicked or the
.exe-file is double clicked.
- no, reboot didn't help
- no, reinstallation of any of the 1.4 versions didn't help either
- yes, reinstallation of 1.3b at least makes 1.3b work again

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install one of the 1.4 versions
2. after successful installation and several url requests, mozilla freezes more
often than the older versions, in the end doesn't start up any longer
3. reboots and trying to reinstall mozilla doesn't change anything

Actual Results:  
mozilla 1.4 versions do not start any longer on this machine

Expected Results:  
it should start normally (like, bring up the splash, make the hard drive crankle
and show up in the end)

- yes, I am using one of these famous ATI cards (of type XPert@work)
- yes, I did something to fix those strange graphics display bugs while
scrolling, namely inserted the following into system.ini:
[display]
DEVBMP=0

Comment 1

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Reporter: how's the 1.6 release ?

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

no response-->resolving wfm