267446 - Huge amount of empty space appears in status area below status bar.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Craig Cockburn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927

The status bar is about 5 times bigger than normal and has a red carat sign in it.

I have deleted all my mozilla directories and done a fresh install over them but
the problem doesn't go away.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install browser
2. Fire up browser

Comment 1

[Craig Cockburn]

Attachment: Screendump of problem, see bottom of image

Comment 2

[Patrick]

the red "^" in the status bar makes me think that you've done a upgrade of a
previous mozilla version.

you say "I have deleted all my mozilla directories and done a fresh install over
them". Does that mean that you manually deteled the entire mozilla directory and
then did a new install [the "over them" sounds like you use the same target folder].

Also can you try with a clean profile? Maybe you have some extensions installed
into your profile folder. I wanna rule out that that is the cause.

Comment 3

[Craig Cockburn]

Hi

I deleted all the directories so that the contents were wiped and then the
directories themselves deleted. Then I did a fresh install and specified the
former location of the directories as the install location. It's possibly
something in the profile. I use firefox on the same box and it's fine. Where can
I find the mozilla profile to delete it?

thanks

Comment 4

[Patrick]

No need to delete any profile :)

Close all Mozilla windows and also exit from the quick launch in case you've got
taht enabled. You can then start the Mozilla profile manager from the start
menu. That way you can create a new profile, w/o losing your old data.

If you can't find the profile manager you can start it manually from the command
line by runnning "mozilla.exe -P" from the directory in which you have mozilla
installed.

Did you add any extensions to your clean installation of Mozilla?

Comment 5

[Craig Cockburn]

Thanks for the advice. I created a new profile and everything is fine now.

Craig

Comment 6

[Patrick]

Based on reporter's comment 5 i'm assuming a horked-up profile, possible caused
by an upwardly-incompatible extension.

New profile made the problem go away -> marking as wfm.