233698 - Firefox 0.8 fails to start / crashes on startup

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam Messinger]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.8/

Not much to say. I double-click the icon, get a little disk activity, then
nothing happens. Firefox.exe does appear very briefly in Task Manager, but if
you blink you'll miss it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Firefox 0.8
2. Attempt to start program
3. Scratch head in confusion

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Browser should start up and display home page.

Previous installation (0.7) had toolbar problems -- overlapping icons on
buttons, very weird. Not sure what this may have to do with current problem
since I removed old version before installing 0.8.

Comment 1

[Adam Messinger]

Forgot to mention that Mozilla 1.6 works fine on this machine. Have not yet
tried to reproduce this bug on a second computer.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

What system are you on? Can you try to re-download firefox?

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

Also, if you have any extensions installed, please disabled them first.

Comment 4

[Adam Messinger]

I'm using WinXP on system with a 2GHz Pentium 4 w/ 512MB RAM and an nVidia TNT 
64 Pro graphics card.

I tried re-downloading from a diferent mirror and had the same results. Before 
installing, I deleted the old Firebird program directory and all files in 
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Phoenix\. Then I removed all references 
to Firebird or Firefox from the Registry and reinstalled Firefox 0.8. The 
browser now works, but with the same toolbar problem.

It seems that this bug was probably the result of some fluke problem with my 
Registry. I'll start a new bug for my toolbar issue if reinstalling the vid 
driver doesn't fix that.