213201 - Mozilla Firebird starts, but then freezes.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 215031

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mary Y.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla Firebird - none of the versions I tried (several) work

Mozilla Firebird does not start. I can see the homepage for a few seconds, but
then the browser stops responding.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download any of the recent Mozilla builds (even a milestone)
2. Run mozillafirebird.exe from the MozillaFirebird-win32 folder
3. Mozilla doesn't respond to anything I do and then it crashes.
Actual Results:  
I had to end the program because it wasn't responding.

Expected Results:  
It should have continued working and let me use it! :)

I thought I'd let you know that I use Mozilla 1.4 all the time and that you're
doing a great job! This browser is sooo much better than IE. Firebird sounds
wonderful as well, I just wish I could use it.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Mary, please wait until a build newer than 0714 surfaces, and run
MozillaFirebird with the -p switch to create a new profile.  It should work
after that point (possibly a corrupt profile or setting somewhere).  This also
works for everyone else using Firebird, so its probably something with your
default profile.

Also, this isn't a blocker, the blocker severity is for issues blocking
milestone releases or compiling the source code.

Severity: --> critical (crash, hang, dataloss)

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215031 ***

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Verified using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b)
Gecko/20030817 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+