367797 - Unable to Open New Window

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[William Chan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1

I had Seamonkey 1.04 installed earlier.

I uninstalled it. Installed 1.1

Seamonkey starts. No problems.

Randomly (70% of time), unable to open new window through the icon @ the trayicon or quicklaunch. However, opening a new window from file->new->window works fine. Also unable to launch mail client from seamoneky icon @ the windows tray icon

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start seamonkey
2.Launch a new window from double clicking trayicon or clicking quicklaunch icon
3.
Actual Results:  
New window does not load.

Expected Results:  
A new window to open.

May or maynot be related, sometimes when i exit seamonkey (right click tray icon exit), then i start seamonkey again, the tray icon does not appear. I have to goto  edit->perferences->advanced->keep seamonkey in memory->okay for the trayicon to reappear.

Comment 1

[Ole Hueter]

I have exactly the same problem.

After a fresh installation of Seamonkey 1.1 everything works fine as expected.
When I close all windows and open a new one, I can not open any further windows by clicking on the quicklaunch or systray icon.
This is always reproducable, a very annoying bug.

I also noticed that when closing all seamonkey windows, the systray icon does not blink anymore. Up to Seamonkey 1.0.7, it disappeared for a moment.

I am running Windows 2000 SP4, all updates installed.

Comment 2

[Ole Hueter]

(In reply to comment #1)

I forgot to say, I also tried creating a new profile as I thought this bug may be caused by some extension I have installed. The problem persists, though.

Comment 4

[corey]

I am having a simmilar/same problem 

I'm using firefox on my mac osX 10.4.8 

I've noticed this bug for a while, and updated several times but it's still there so I decided to report it:

When i try to open a new browser window while another browser window is minimized via file:new window or (APPLE-N) no window opens, and the file menu stays highlighted. if i maximize the other windows first, then open a new window, then minimize the others it works.

this is really annoying if you are trying to keep an open window for webmail or   you are waiting to get a last minute ebay bid in or whatever, but want to do other things in the meantime

-corey-

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

William, Ole,

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?


(In reply to comment #4)
> I am having a simmilar/same problem 
> I'm using firefox on my mac osX 10.4.8 

Please file a separate report for Firefox.

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

No answer to comment #5 => INCOMPLETE.

Please open a new bug if seen in SeaMonkey 2.0.14 or later (preferably 2.1 or later).