248820 - following installation, after first reboot, firefox thread loads but no form is visible.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam Eikman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 0.9.0.0

upon clicking the .exe, the computer spends a little time hourglassing then... 
nothing. doing a cntrl-alt-del i can see it's thread in processes, although no 
where to be seen in applications and there is no form visible on the desktop. 
I installed mozilla just to make sure my computer wasnt being a freak. mozilla 
works like a champ. i tried running the ziped version which incedentally is .8 
instead of .9 and the same problem arises.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install the installation executable. run it. enjoy it.
2.reboot
3.try running again.

Actual Results:  
firefox doesnt load

Expected Results:  
pop up the firefox form

Comment 1

[shadytrees]

Can you reproduce this with a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Profile_Folder

Comment 2

[Adam Eikman]

that was it. may i suggest that firefox has a selection to uninstall profiles 
or repair them in the installshield. a repair operation could return the last 
good profile, which was created as a backup when the user installed a mod. i 
have to admit that i felt like a kid in a candy store, with all those mods to 
select from. i downloaded alot of them before i even got started. im sure alot 
of people do and the more they do the higher the probability this might occur 
in with the windows binary. i did not draw the association that one of those 
mods caused the  program to behave as it did. 
let me know how i can be of help.
if you want me to look at the *.ise  let me know

Comment 3

[shadytrees]

Should be resolved as resolution WORKSFORME or INVALID, I think.