223975 - Give an error when trying to save preferences not allowing to change them

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Geraldo Lavin]

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

The problem is that I cannot change themes or homepage etc. because when I OK to
exits it tells me that 'FAILED TO SAVE PREFERENCES...' and the next session the
brower retain the old preferences, I think that the file where preferences may
be stored have damage and I wonder how can I fix it. The problem remains even if
I reinstall Mozilla. Even different versions.

Appreciate help.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.change theme or homepage 
2.save it by pressing OK
3.

Actual Results:  
Give error messages : " Failed to save the preferences file. Any preference
change s will be lost at the end of this sesscion"


Expected Results:  
Save new preferences

Comment 1

[Charles Fenwick]

See comments on bug 161103

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 4

[Geraldo Lavin]

The problem was not with the browser but with the service, this was reported to 
Google and has to do with Google mail. I do not know why it came here. Sorry.