321348 - TB process still active in Task Manager but doesn't show in task bar.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246531

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Both FF and TB active processes, but TB disappeared in Taskbar. Have also seen the reverse where FF disappears from Taskbar, but process is still active. Can sometimes revive missing TB or FF to Taskbar by switching to the other window or maximizing the other window. 
Using Win XP Pro, SP2. Up-to-date on fixes.

Reproducible: Sometimes




Happens with casual use and fairly frequently (like several times daily).

Comment 1

[Jim M]

Looks like my bug report is a dupe of # 246531 (see comments there).

As I seemed to remember, this problem has been around for quite a while.  Apparently unresolvable Windows problem? In my case, I had only FF window and TB window open. No tabs. No other apps running. After browsing in FF for a while noticed TB missing in taskbar, but TB process still running. Jim M

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Looks like my bug report is a dupe of # 246531 (see comments there).

Then you should have marked it as a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246531 ***