222543 - Installing v1.5 over 1.4.1, uninstalling old skins makes View>Apply Theme inaccessible; Browser must be restarted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213987

(Core Graveyard :: Skinability, defect)

Description

[Amiya Gupta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I installed v1.5 over 1.4.1, and it changed to default to the Classic theme.
Changing the theme to the old one brought up the uninstall dialog, and I clicked
OK. After that, the View > Apply Theme menu is inaccessible. I had to restart
the browser. The uninstall was ok, though.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install v 1.5 over 1.4.1 (with 1.4 skins)
2. Go to View > Apply Theme
3. Select any theme other than Classic & Modern
4. Click OK for the dialog box offering to uninstall the incompatible skin.
5. Go to View > Apply Theme again.
Actual Results:  
The Apply Theme menu did not open.

Expected Results:  
The Apply Theme menu should have opened up.

The bug occured with all 10 themes I needed to uninstall.

Comment 1

[Travis Snoozy]

This bug is also present under linux.

Under gentoo:

- emerge mozilla-1.4.1
- Install and set a 1.4 specific theme to default
- emerge --update mozilla (selects 1.5)
- click 'ok' to uninstall the old default theme when the browser starts
- View -> apply theme does not work until the browser is restarted

- Furthermore, going to Edit -> Prefrences -> Appearance -> Themes, selecting a
1.4 theme and selecting 'uninstall' crashes the browser (at least if it is the
first time the browser has been run after building and installing it.)

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

Well, smells invalid bug. Never overwrite a previous mozilla.

You can read this for 1.5 release :

http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.5/

"To avoid incompatibility problem with previous versions, the Mozilla installer
will prompt you to delete the install directory if it is not empty. Answer NO if
you put your profile or other personal files in the install directory, otherwise
the files will be deleted. Users who put profiles in the default location are
not affected."

And http://mozilla.org/docs/end-user/guide/get-started.html#previous-mozilla

"If you have a previous version of Mozilla installed

Before installing a new version of Mozilla, you should uninstall your previous
version first. If you have a third-party extension installed, particularly the
spell checker, you should also completely delete your Mozilla install directory
before making a new install. Do not install over an old Mozilla version.

Your profile data is stored separately from Mozilla, so uninstalling Mozilla
won’t affect your profile data."

Closing bug as INVALID (not a mozilla bug)

Feel free to reopen it if you disagree.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

reopening for duping

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213987 ***