287901 - "Minimize to tray" error in component load (i.e. Browser or Mail window load)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Sascha Meyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319

I recently upgraded from Mozilla 1.7.5 to 1.7.6 (with the german language
package) and all of a sudden I receive the error message "Cannot find binary
component: Please make sure you have the required DLLs before installing this
extension" - the message box itself is titled "Minimze to tray - component load
error".

The message box appears if I launch one of the Mozilla Suite's components i.e.
if I open the first browser window. If Quicklaunch is enabled and I close the
last window of Mozilla, Mozilla enters an infinite loop, switching between
displaying the Mozilla icon in the tray and showing the above error message.

I already installed the "Extension uninstaller" extension but I can't find any
extension for the "Minimize tot tray" functionality.
I also tried to add "mscvr71.dll" to windows\system32 but it was already present
at this location (found this possible solution through googling a bit).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close all mozilla windows
2. Open one new mozilla window i.e. browser or mail
Actual Results:  
the message box will be shown (this is only annoying), but I can't enable Quick
launch any more.

Expected Results:  
It shouldn't display the error and Quick launch should work.

- the error is not theme-dependant: i tried "Classic" and "Walnut 1.5"

Comment 1

[Sascha Meyer]

I realized that I had the "Minimize to tray" extension installed and it was not
listed anymore after I updated to 1.7.6.

After I downloaded the xpi from http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/ (which caused
some problems because the xpi file didn't open in Mozilla, instead an "Open
with" window appeared) and manually installed it through the "Install Manager"
extension, the error was gone and I could use Quick launch again without any
infinite loops of error messages.

So, this solution worked for me.