278734 - Changing Firefox Agent emulation to IE-like prevents Firefox to start

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83376

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philippe LEVi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

Using Firefox 1.0. Leaving our internal webmail (https) brings a window
requesting to close the browser. In Firefox, doesn't accept to close by pressing
either Yes or No from the dialogbox. Decided to "emulate" IE by changing the
navigationagent in Firefox. Since then, couldn't start Firefox anymore because
of the Netscape Java plugin: error message stated "Use the IE Java plugin
instead of the Netscape plugin". Looking at the task list shows Firefox using up
to 99% CPU time and doing nothing. Uninstalling and cleaning the registry didn't
help either until I got rid of the Netscape key under HKLM\Software\Netscape

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the Java plugin for Mozilla/Netscape 
2. Change Firefox behavior to emulate IE
3. Quit and try to restart



Expected Results:  
Allow me to change options/preferences

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83376 ***