304692 - Attempts to subscribe to new groups fail and freeze browser - browser must be closed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Robert Lindsay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217

Newsgroups have become damaged somehow. If I try to subscribe to new newsgroups
in Altopia by clicking Subscribe, Subscribe refuses to open. Moz News freezes
and there is no way to let it calm down. Windows tells me Moz is not responding.
I must close Moz.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click Subscribe in the Altopia account.


Actual Results:  
Subscribe refuses to open. Moz News then freezes (browser may also be frozen -
not certain). Windows say Moz is not responding. Moz must be closed.

Expected Results:  
Click subscribe to newsgroups in the account. Subscribe window for the account
opens and the user subscribes to one or more groups. The window is closed and
new groups appear in the account window. News continues to respond and is not
frozen.

All attempts to rectify this crash have not worked. How do I get Moz News back
to normal, since it has apparently been damaged somehow. Moz News and
Thunderbird continue to be highly flaky applications on my system. All
Thunderbird versions have been quite flaky and Moz News is seriously flaky also.
News and Thunderbird appear far, far more flaky and unstable than the browser,
IMHO a longstanding Moz issue.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Please retest with a current trunk build from (now called Seamonkey 1.0x,
formerly known as Mozilla 1.8x)

http://ftp.eu.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/

Thanks.

Comment 2

[Robert Lindsay]

Apparently fixed or much improved with Thunderbird 1.5.0.4

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

No specific bug / patch referenced as the fix.

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