222935 - Clicking objects in windows from Tools-menu crashes the whole browser. Cookie Manager, for example.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Tomi "BGT" Mäntylä]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031019
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031019

Clicking on a cookie in the Cookie Manager causes the browser to crash.

This also happens when right-clicking on a file in Downloader.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools -> Cookie Manager
2. Click on a cookie

1. Download a file.
2. Left-click on the file in the list.

Actual Results:  
The whole Mozilla program crashes.

Expected Results:  
Display details of the cookie at the bottom of the window.

Display a pop-up menu for the downloaded file.

Seems like some kind of problem using Windows libraries. I have both run windows
updates and updated my nightly build a week ago, so I don't know which one is
the cause; changes in the nightly build or changes in windows updates.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031020
Home&eEnd are both working, tested with the separate keys above cursor pad as
with the keys in the number pad.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Sorry for the bugspam, I posted previous comment in the wrong tab.

But concerning this bug, I can´t reproduce it either on Win98 nor win98SE.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031020

Can you create a new profile just for test? 
Did you do a clean install, or just on-top?
Did you havbe extensions installed, or from what version did you upgrade?
 

Comment 3

[Tomi "BGT" Mäntylä]

I did an on-top installation of
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32-talkback.zip

I usually use mozilla-win32-installer.exe, but there is now the bug #222934 that
prevents that one from working.

Comment 4

[Tomi "BGT" Mäntylä]

Okay. I removed Mozilla through Control-panel->Add/Remove Programs and then
copied the talkback's content into C:/Program Files/mozilla.org/mozilla

Now it works again.

As this installation now won't show Mozilla in Add/Remove Programs; is it
supposed that the installation done by installer can't be upgraded like this?

Should I have used mozilla-win32.zip instead?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> is it supposed that the installation done by installer can't be upgraded like
> this?

Mozilla .zip builds can only be installed in a clean directory, since just
unzipping the zip has no way to delete old files that will interfere with the
new build and lead to exactly the issues you see (random crashes).

Marking invalid, since the release notes clearly say not to do this (see
http://mozilla.org/docs/end-user/guide/get-started.html#previous-mozilla).