278319 - Download Manager does not show up when selecting menu "Tools/Download Manager"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180672

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Xuân Baldauf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

additionally, downloading using menu "File/Save Page As..." or context menu
"Save Link Target As..." plainly does not work. It opens a "Save As..." dialog,
but then no file will ever be saved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the "Tools" menu
2. Then click on the "Download Manager" menu item

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
The "Download Manager" window should appear.

This is a regression. With Mozilla 1.8a5, it worked, with Mozilla 1.8a6, it does
not work.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Try if the URL of Bug 180672 helps or the deletion of the file compreg.dat. If
so, this bug is a duplicate.

Comment 2

[Xuân Baldauf]

Okay, that hint helped. I uninstalled mozilla completely using the uninstall
wizard. Within that process, "compreg.dat", was deleted. After installing
mozilla again, downloading now works.

Comment 3

[Xuân Baldauf]

I'm sorry, but only after one day of use, the problem reappeared again (without
doing any install inbetween).

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm sorry, but only after one day of use, the problem reappeared again (without
> doing any install inbetween).

And, does about:plugins help (see my comment 1)? The workaround is not
persistent for a specific time.

Comment 5

[OstGote!]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180672 ***