95069 - Mozilla hangs on startup after setting memory cache to 0KB

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 88259

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[Xuân Baldauf]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010812
BuildID:    2001081208

If you set your memory cache to 0 (Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache/Memory
Cache), mozilla will hang during the next startup. It will show the splash
screen infinitely long . It will never create a window.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set configuration entry "Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache/Memory Cache" to 0.
2. Close your browser completely.
3. Try to start your browser.

Actual Results:  Mozilla should show the splash screen and then it should show a
browser window.

Expected Results:  Mozilla shows the splash screen infinitely long.

After removing the entry 

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 0);

in "prefs.js" or setting it to

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 1);
mozilla will start again normally.


Severity "blocker" because entering this bug, people will not be able to use
mozilla anymore, even after reinstallation. They would have to make their
"prefs.js" unreachable (e.g. by renaming one component of the path to "prefs.js"
to another name). This cannot be expected by the average user, partly because
the bug might show up days after being triggered (namely after restarting mozilla).

Comment 1

[Stephen Walker]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88259 ***

Comment 2

[Martin Poirier]

Actual and expected results seems inverted...

Comment 3

[benc]

VERIFIED:
same problem