270902 - menu bar items not showing on some startups

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283050

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Newland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.11
Build Identifier: 

on random starts the menu bar shows the first item 'Firefox' only and no other items, ability to 
manually enter a URL is also removed and cannot enter into any text box presented by any page 
including this page. Report sent using Safari as Firefox and Thunderbird (same problem) have become 
unuseable Thunderbird will also not allow manual entry of email address

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.launch firefox / thunderbird
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
full functionality sometimes, re-launch fixes sometimes. have tried removing prefs  and re-installing 
from newly downloaded copies...problem re-appears within 3 ` 4 launches

Expected Results:  
show full menu bar items on launch
allow manual entry of url
allow entry of text into fields on web page(s)
allow manual entry of email address in new email

using MacOS 10.3.6 on tiBook 1gHz/1gb RAM cable modem
have had to go back to Eudora and Safari after high expectations
MS Explorer works fine
not seen this behaviour with any other program
Firefox/Thunderbird problems seem VERY similar and may be using same piece of code

Comment 1

[Arthur Wiebe]

Peter,
 In the future report each specific bug seperatly. For example reporting a bug
in Thunderbird here does you no good.

Also instead of removing the prefs. Try removing the Firefox folder located in
~/Library/Application Support

Then report back with the results.
 - Thanks.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Fabio Russo]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283050 ***