220107 - Download Manager will not open when requested, and Mozilla will not download files

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Nate DeSimone]

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

After some time, my installation of Mozilla 1.4 stopped displaying the download
manager, nor will it download any files.  When I first installed Mozilla, the
download manager worked fine.  When I click on the Tools->Download Manager menu
option, the following error message appears on the Javascript Console:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult:
"0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://communicator/content/tasksOverlay.js :: toDownloadManager :: line 51" 
data: no]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto Tools->Download Manager or try to download a file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla did nothing, and the error message mentioned above appeared on the
Javascript Console

Expected Results:  
It should have begun a file download, or it should have opened the Download Manager.

Using the Modern Theme

Comment 1

[Nate DeSimone]

After reinstalling Mozilla, this problem was fixed.  I was able to keep my old
profile information from the old installation, so the problem was not related to
anything in the user profiles.  I think this problem might have been caused when
I set Mozilla to be my default mail handler using the Set Program Access and
Defaults utility provided by Microsoft, suring which time I saw the Mozilla
installer pop up for a second, but then disappeared, however I can't recall
exactly if it was after that the download manager stopped functioning.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

Resolving WFM per last comment.