154189 - Startup Error on fresh install of 1.0 and 1.1 on XP

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193638

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Richard Holbo]

When starting mozilla on an XP Pro system with IE and OfficeXP installed, I 
get:

Configuration Warning
An error occured reading the startup configuration file.  Please contact your 
administrator.
line 101: SyntaxError: unterminated string literal. user_pref
(:timebomb.first_launch_tim

The system will not remember any settings made to the browser or email client.

Comment 1

[timeless]

did you manually select your platform?

Comment 2

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

Reporter, your prefs.js file is corrupt.

>(:timebomb.first_launch_tim

Comment 3

[Richard Holbo]

OK, but why?  I installed, and uninstalled the program, and downloaded 1.1 
just to have a different version (corrupt installer??)..

I deleted everything under "C:\Documents and Settings\~\Mozilla" and restarted 
Mozilla, and it appears to have recreated it ok. and it is remembering my 
settings now.

??

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

WFM per reporter.

Comment 5

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

Hard to say. The line in question:
user_pref(:timebomb.first_launch_tim

Should have looked something like:
user_pref("timebomb.first_launch_time","<some time value>");

If yours wasn't the only report like this I've seen, I would suspect the
timebomb code, but seems more likely that something just hiccupped...

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

.

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193638 ***