69298 - column display prefs not saved on quit

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[ben arthur]

i use the little icon to the right of all the columns to selectively display
only certain columns.  when i quit out of mozilla, these preferences are not
saved, and i have to reset them evertime i start up.  the same thing happens
when i use view->my sidebar to get rid of that hideous thing.  my guess is that
this is a bug, and the UI specifies these settings should be saved.  if that's
not the case, then i would request a new feature, cause i'm really getting tired
of reconfiguring mozilla everytime i start up.

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

*** Bug 69299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[J Luh]

I ran into a similar problem a while ago on Mac. I think it turned out that one
of the RDF files was corrupted--localstore.rdf or panels.rdf, I don't remember
which.

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

I got an email from ben saying:

"this bug report is a bug itself.  i observed this behavior on a copy of mozilla
0.8 that i had installed over netscape 6.01.  when i deleted Documents/Mozilla/
and started afresh, it no longer appeared.
<...>
could you lease inform the other developers to not look for this bug? 

ben"


Should we mark this invalid per bugreporters advise?

Comment 4

[Fabian Guisset]

corrupted localstore.rdf due to netscape<->mozilla -> worksforme

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified (this can happen even between certain milestones/releases.)

Comment 6

[ben arthur]

since i've got your attention, i'll pose a question:  given that both mozilla
and netscape rely on the same folder (/Documents/Mozilla/), is it possible to
install both netscape 6.01 AND mozilla 0.8 on the same machine, for purposes of
cross-browser testing of code?  my guess is that this is currently not possible,
and that the easiest solution would be for the netscape people to use
/Documents/Nescape instead.