65295 - Toolbar preferences are not saved

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Shane Killian]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010109
BuildID:    2001010901

When changing the preferences under the View menu to turn off My Sidebar,
Personal Toolbar, or Taskbar, and the browser is closed normally, the bars still
reappear when Mozilla is started next. The setting is forgotten.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Start Mozilla. Go to View/My Sidebar to turn it off. Go to View/Toolbars and
hide any toolbars there. Close Mozilla. Open Mozilla, and the bars are back!

Actual Results:  The bars reappear after Mozilla was restarted.

Expected Results:  Previous versions of Mozilla remembered the settings and
restarted with the bars hidden.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

WFM with win2k and build 2001010620

Reporter: have you tried a new profile ?
(Please delete User50, registry.dat and c:\winnt\mozregistry.dat) ?
I saw this with a corrupt profile.

Comment 2

[Shane Killian]

Looks like Matthias was correct. Apparently, the profile got corrupted at the
time of the upgrade from Mozilla 0.6 to 0.7.

Simply deleting mozregistry.dat on its own had no effect.

I deleted the registry.dat from my profile directory (under Application
Data/Mozilla). The next time I started Mozilla, I was propted to import my
Netscape profile again. After doing this, the Toolbar settings started saving
properly.

It was not necessary to delete allt he files in my profile, just the
registry.dat file. The old profile was still there in a different directory, so
I was able to retrieve some information (Bookmarks, mail, etc.) from the old
profile before deleting it.

Comment 3

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...