223886 - Firebird cannot be launched from Dock

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ty Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7

After dragging Firebird icon into Dock, Firebird cannot be launched by clicking
on its icon in the Dock.  Firebird can be launched by double-clicking on its
icon in the Finder.  Firebird can be quit by right-clicking on its icon in the Dock.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag Firebird icon into Dock
2. Click on Firebird icon in Dock
3. Become confused

Actual Results:  
No visible action.  Clicking on the icon in the Dock has no effect on anything.

Expected Results:  
Firebird should have launched

Comment 1

[Wayne Woods]

Very odd. Initially it sounded to me like what happens if you create the dock
icon from a source which is then deleted (like if you'd created it from the
Firebird icon in the original disk image folder), but I don't think that'd
explain being able to use the icon to quit the program. Sounds a bit like bug
223658. I assume you've tried deleting the dock icon and creating a new one?

Comment 2

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

This sounds like it could be bug 204484. In this bug, when Firebird is already
running, but with no open windows, clicking the Dock icon doesn't do anything.

Can you confirm whether Firebird was actually running already (you'll see
"Mozilla Firebird" in the top left application menu). If so, this can be marked
as a duplicate of bug 204484.

Comment 3

[Mike S.]

Mac OS X 10.2.8
Firebird build: Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040127 Firebird/0.8.0+

 Firebird launches from the Dock without any issue.

Comment 4

[James Anthony]

*** Bug 232430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[James Anthony]

Try deleting ~/Library/Phoenix/Application Registry
If that doesn't fix it, try deleting the whole folder (~/Library/Phoenix)

Comment 6

[benc]

Yikes. isn't your firebird profile inside that folder?

Comment 7

[Christopher Eppstein]

FYI: I am able to launch Firebird 0.7 from my dock in OS X.3.

Comment 8

[Wayne Woods]

Ty and benc, are you still reading this?

Were you running OS X 10.3 and do you have any extensions or third-party themes
installed?

If so, please remove them and see if it loads then.

Please let us know if that works. It could be related to bug 223654.

Comment 9

[Ty Williams]

Sorry for my absence.  I can no longer cause this bug to happen.  As far as I
can tell this bug is resolved.