253047 - Can't open new tabs, can't quit Mozilla properly, email texts don't show in mail windows any more

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Christofer Rathke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

Over the last 6 months I have encountered the following combination of problems
with all recent Mozilla releases:  at some stage - sometimes after using Mozilla
for a day, sometimes after a few hours - I can't open new tabs any more, even if
the number of open tabs is only a few.  Such trouble always coincides with two
other problems: (1) when I try to restart Mozilla then I only get to the message
"do you want to close all ... open tabs?" which then freezes, so that I have to
perform a "force quit" to quit the program;  (2) at the same time another
problem occurs in the mailer:  if I click on a emails, only empty windows open,
i.e. text messages are not displayed any more (reappear only after re-starting
Mozilla - not just the mailing program - again.)  I hoped these problems would
disappear with new releases of Mozilla but they seem to have turned into a
permanent feature.  Have encountered them for at least 6 months.  The reason why
I haven't reported these bugs earlier is that I haven't been able to observe and
diagnose what exactly in the chain of actions causes them.  They seem to occur
randomly.

Best regards,  Christofer Rathke

Reproducible: Sometimes
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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