Frames

[Erik]

Hello,

I've been trying to disable frames in my browser, by setting

user_pref("browser.frames.enabled", false);

in the prefs.js file. When I try to launch my browser I get the
following error message

Error launching browser window:no XBL binding for browser

and I can't startup my browser. When I change the text in the prefs.js
file to:

user_pref("browser.frames.enabled", true);

My browser starts up again without any problem.
I have this problem with Mozilla 1.6 as well as with Mozilla 1.7.3 both
for the windows platform.
Furthermore when I start my browser and change in the advanced preferences

browser.frames.enabled

to false, then not only are frames disabled but my bookmarks won't load
anymore and the Preferences dialog (Edit > Preferences) isn't correctely
displayed. Does this mean that the browser GUI is depending on frames?

Can anyone explain this behaveour to me? Is it a bug? Is it possible to
browse with Mozilla with frames disabled and how?

Thanks,
Erik

[Neil]

Post by Erik
Does this mean that the browser GUI is depending on frames?

Yes, it does! Each panel of preferences is loaded into a frame. The
browser is also a frame. From reading log files it appears that in very
early versions of Mozilla the interface was apparently written in HTML
but XUL has been used for as long as I can remember. Oh, and yes, it is
a known bug.