215499 - Sidebar is not shown after startup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Bernd Bartmann]

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

Altough I selected in the menu that the sidebar should always be visible, after
startup the sidebar is missing. I'll attach a screenshot showing what's wrong

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select that the sidebar should be visible
2. Start Mozilla --> sidebar is not there
3.

Comment 1

[Bernd Bartmann]

Attachment: Screenshot of missing sidebar

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

I remember this was supposed to be fixed long ago. Reporter: did you try with
fresh profile?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

what happends if you press F0 twice ?

Comment 4

[Bernd Bartmann]

You probably mean F9 right? After pressing F9 twice the sidebar appears correctly.

Comment 5

[Bernd Bartmann]

Using a new fresh user profile I can't reproduce the problem. So there probably
is an error in my standard profile?

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you delete the file "localstore.rdf" in your profile while Mozilla isn't
running ?

(and yes, i mean F9)

Comment 7

[Bernd Bartmann]

Deleting localstore.rdf seems to fix the problem. I had to re-check "Show
Sidebar" and now it is visible again after restarting Mozilla.

Do I have to expect any side effects because localstore.rdf is now a new file?

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It's only possible that you must chech, uncheck, recheck some settings for the 
shown buttons in the toolbars (edit\preferences\navigator)

marking wfm (corrupot profile)

Please reopen if you get this problem again. Attach the corrupt file in that case