207189 - Later builds than 2002-12-07 do not startup

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Munday]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

I am stuck with the edition of Phoenix as detailed above because later builds
just do not load on my PC.  Something is loading because when I click the task
manager, (ie CTRL+ALT+DEL), MozillaFirebird shows up, but nothing else happens.  

I keep downloading the nightlies in case one of them loads up properly, but the
story is unfortunately the same each time.  

I suspect that the problem does lie with Firebird as opposed to Mozilla, because
 Mozilla loads without any problems.

I am using WinMe

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Actual Results:  
N/A

Expected Results:  
Firebird should have loaded properly so that I could use it.

No error message shows so I have no idea what module(s) might be involved.

Comment 1

[Alan Munday]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

Comment 2

[Erik]

Alan, did you

a) unzip the archive into a _new_ directory and

b) start MozillaFirebird with option "-p" in order to create a new profile?

=> tweaking summary + severity since this is no blocker

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

No problems here with 20030526 build running under W2K.

Alan, please act according to the instructions given by Erik and then report back.

Comment 4

[Erik]

Might be also this bug #205129-stuff?

Alan, can you please have a look in your prefs.js file located in your pofile
folder - if it's missing the following line, please add it while all instances
of your browser should be closed:

user_pref("browser.bookmarks.added_static_root", true);

If you've got problems locating the above mentioned file please feel free to
contact me via mail so I can provide you with the necessary steps to check this out.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Alan, please see the earlier comments.  Unless you can update this after testing
further with a new build and the workaround Erik mentioned, it will be marked
RESOLVED INVALID.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Marking RESOLVED WORKSFORME (not INVALID!)

Reporter, please reopen this bug if the advice given fails to resolve your problem.