814703 - Thunderbird Opens Two Windows After Upgrade to v17.0 (Windows platform)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 805185

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Ron Herardian]

Attachment: session.json.bad

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121024073032

Steps to reproduce:

Thunderbird opens two identical windows after upgrading to v17.0 on Windows XP SP2 with current patches (opening existing email profile).

The problem is in the session.json file (see detail). NOTE: This file _NOT_ re-created when the user re-starts Thunderbird with add-ons disabled and selects "Re-set toolbars and controls."  This is a second additional issue.


Actual results:

Clicking the icon to launch Thunderbird results in two identical windows being opened.  The profile's session.json file seems to have been appended instead of being overwritten after upgrade causing duplication.  Here are the contents of the file:

{"rev":0,"windows":[{"type":"3pane","tabs":{"rev":0,"selectedIndex":0,"tabs":[{"mode":"folder","state":{"folderURI":"mailbox://[e-mail]/Sent","folderPaneVisible":true,"messagePaneVisible":true,"firstTab":true},"ext":{"quickFilter":{"filterValues":{"text":{"text":null,"states":{"sender":true,"recipients":true,"subject":true}}},"visible":false}}}]}},{"type":"3pane","tabs":{"rev":0,"selectedIndex":0,"tabs":[{"mode":"folder","state":{"folderURI":"mailbox://[e-mail]","folderPaneVisible":true,"messagePaneVisible":true,"firstTab":true},"ext":{"quickFilter":{"filterValues":{"text":{"text":null,"states":{"sender":true,"recipients":true,"subject":true}}},"visible":false}}}]}}]}




Expected results:

If the session.json file is deleted, a new one in created that does not contain duplication.  Here are the contents of the clean (new) file for comparison:

{"rev":0,"windows":[{"type":"3pane","tabs":{"rev":0,"selectedIndex":0,"tabs":[{"mode":"folder","state":{"folderURI":"mailbox://[e-mail]","folderPaneVisible":true,"messagePaneVisible":true,"firstTab":true},"ext":{"quickFilter":{"filterValues":{"text":{"text":null,"states":{"sender":true,"recipients":true,"subject":true}}},"visible":true}}}]}}]}

Comment 1

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

duping to bug 805185