211482 - When I click on browser icon it opens to Mozilla Mail instead of internet.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Morgan Spector]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I just installed the Mozilla upgrade. When I click on the browser icon two 
things happen. (1) It loads Mozilla mail, not the browser; and (2) it messes 
up my desktop. All the desktop colors go off, the wallpaper gets very grainy. 
I cannot delete Mozilla and start over because I have a lot of accumulated 
mail that I cannot afford to lose.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on browser icon on desktop
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla loaded Mozilla mail, not the browser. Also, messed up the desktop such 
that colors are off and the wallpaper is grainy.

Expected Results:  
It should have loaded the browser and not messed with the desktop

None in particular

Comment 1

[Charles Fenwick]

For the issue of mail coming up instead of the browser, look under
Edit>Preferences "Appearance"  'When Mozilla starts Up ppen'.  Make sure that
Navigator is checked (and uncheck Mail & Newsgroups if you don't want it to open
on start).

Not sure about what's causing problems with your desktop.

Your e-mail is stored in your profile directory, which is seperate from the
directory that Mozilla installs into (as explained in
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/installation.html). so uninstalling
does not affect your mail and preferences.

Comment 2

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

try right clicking on the mozilla icon, opening Properties and making sure
"Target" field says something like: 
"C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe",
and not: "C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" -mail

also for desktop problem try upgrading to 1.5, I think something related has
been fixed in 1.5.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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