222710 - clicking on preferences:navigator:helper applications:applications/pdf

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219726

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Paul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

In preferences, under the navigator tab, in the helper application dialogue,
when i select applications/pdf the browser instantly crashes. In addition, I can
not download pdf files, I get an error "[file location] could not be saved
because an unknown error occured."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Mozilla
2.Open Prefs (its unser Mozilla in OS X)
3.Click on Navigator tab to reveal sub categories
4.Click on the helper applicaitons to reveal a dialogue on the pane to the right
5.under file types scroll down until you see "applicaiton/pdf" click on it
6.watch Mozilla crash and burn

Actual Results:  
crash and burn

Expected Results:  
allowed me to select this item from the list

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed on the trunk, but not the branch....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213639 ***

Comment 2

[Paul]

What does "Fixed on the trunk, but not the branch...." mean?

Comment 3

[Paul]

Why is the a duplicate? The other bug is about a download, this is about selecting 
something in a preferences pane.

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Paul:

Before a major release the trunk (development builds) is "frozen" and a separate
branch is created. The branch is then tested (alpha and beta releases). At the
same time, the trunk builds are developed further (new features etc, more risky
development). The fix for bug 213639 was checked in on the trunk after the 1.5
branch was created. But it was never checked in on the 1.5 branch. So even if
your branch build is created after the fix you'll still experience the problem.

But if you download a nightly build (ie a trunk build) the problem should be
resolved. Bug 213639 might sound different, but the crashing due to the linkage
issue happened not just when trying to download. But I'm gonna dupe this bug
against bug 219726 which is resolved as worksforme (probably because of the fix
for bug 213639).

Feel free to reopen the bug if you still see the problem in a nightly build.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219726 ***