283850 - unable to open any new windows; javascript console; popups; page source

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Grant]

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

When I click on the icon, it loads the main browser fine.  However, when I use
ctly-U (or select from the menu) to view source, nothing comes up.  Popups do
not show up.  Can't open a new navigator window from the menu or using ctl-N. 
However, I have noticed that when I try, a number is added to the window drop
down menu indicating another window is opened, but just the number is listed. 
There is no title.  When I click on it, nothing happens.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Comment 1

[Grant]

Attachment: Screen shot of the browser with th window file menu option opened.

This is a screen shot to show how there appears to be open windows but they
have blank titles and do nothing when clicked on.  These are the result of me
trying to open the source code, open a new navigator window, etc.

Comment 2

[Grant]

I did figure out one thing.  The reason I couldn't open any windows (page
source, bookmarks, etc.) was because I has deleted the file minimizetotray.jar
from the chrome directory.  I did this however because every time I opened a new
window I got the following error:

Titled: Minimize To Tray

Cannot find binary component:
Please make sure you have the required DLLs before installing the extension

I put this file back and I'm able to open my bookmarks and view page source and
open new navigaotr windows.  However, each time this error comes up.  Can anyone
offer me any insight to what is going on here.  From what happened, I'm guessing
I need this minimizetotray.jar file.  Can someone offer input to as why I'm
getting this error message?

Comment 3

[Dan M]

What you've done here is brought home a book, between chapters scribbled in some
quotations from other authors you like, and then riffled through and ripped out
random pages by hand. And now you've asked the author of the book why the plot
doesn't make sense any longer. I especially like the part where every few days
you trickle in hints about what you've done, and invite us to guess the new
ending. We'd have to be some kind of wizards to play that game with any success.

Bugzilla is not a good forum for user support problems. But I'll say this while
closing this bug. minimizetotray.jar is part of an extension. My guess would be
that you're missing a system component necessary to minimizetotray, as mentioned
in that extension's installation notes. I really couldn't guess at what other
similarly destructive modifications you may have made to Mozilla after
installing it, and it doesn't sound like much fun to try.

I think it's fair to say we're not interested in knowing what this extension did
after you knocked its legs out from underneath. There's a certain level of good
will necessary between Mozilla and these third-party add-in components. Wild
extensions are not something we can tenably armour Mozilla against. You might
consider filing a bug against the extension authors. I'd word it like this: "Hey
I bought yer monkey, broke all his legs, and then he defecated all over his
cage. Please make nicer monkeys." It could happen. You should ask.

Comment 4

[Grant]

Get off your high horse and get a life.  You could have saved a lot more time by
just telling me to go the writer of the extension instead of writing the idiotic
message you wrote.  

I thought this orginally was a bug in the application and was not aware it was
related to an extension.  In fact, I wasn't even aware the extension existed
until I started playing around trying to figure out the problem with the error
message popping up about a component missing.  I'm not sure if another user
installed it or what happened.  Sorry I'm not some 'genius' who knew off the bat
that minimizetotray was an extension and not a component for the browser.

What makes you feel that you have to go around making people feel like **** when
all they did was submit an innocent question?  I hate to think how you act at
your job.  I sure hope it's not in customer service.