279193 - Manual profile restore causes random GUI components to be missing on startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172062

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

When a new Mozilla installation's default profile is swapped with an existing 
profile through manual means (relocate and rename old profile directories to 
C:\Documents and Settings\FooUSER\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\Default 
User\ as well as the corresponding directories within), Mozilla startup is 
corrupted to the point of non functional, on a random basis.. (8 times out of 
10 various missing items such as menu bars, missing bookmark bar, missing GUI 
buttons).

Reinstallation does not solve problem

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Remove default profile
2.Take existing profile and rename to \Default User
3.Take existing subdirectories and rename accordingly

Actual Results:  
Non functional browser
Random missing GUI elements (menu bars, bookmark bar, navigation buttons)
No homepage startup


Expected Results:  
Function as normal?

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

There are absolute path references within your profile...

this apparently works as expected in firefox (bug 246209)
dupe of "chrome.rdf in user profile should use relative target to (theme).jar"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172062 ***