254342 - Firefox is crashing at startup [@ firefox.exe ]

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nagi Peters]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040729 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040729 Firefox/0.8

Firefox is crashing at startup. The window is flashing up but in the same time
the windows crash is showing up.
Last working build: 20040729
Crashing tested with builds: 20040730; 20040731; 20040801; 20040802; 20040803;
20040804
All build are Firefox-win32.zip


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox
2. -> crash
3.

Actual Results:  
crashing

Expected Results:  
browser starts without crash

Talkbacks:
TB484018X (with 20040804)
TB484016G (with 20040804)
TB484176K
TB484103X
TB484088E
TB484084Z
TB484052W

Comment 1

[Nagi Peters]

version: trunk

Comment 2

[Adam Hauner]

All incidents have similar stack:
firefox.exe + 0xa779f (0x004a779f)
xpcom.dll + 0x3608f (0x602f608f)
firefox.exe + 0x1cbe6 (0x0041cbe6)
firefox.exe + 0x1aa4c (0x0041aa4c)
js3250.dll + 0x1bfc1 (0x6008bfc1)
js3250.dll + 0x21732 (0x60091732)
js3250.dll + 0x1c001 (0x6008c001)
js3250.dll + 0x1c2ae (0x6008c2ae)
js3250.dll + 0x4c21 (0x60074c21)
firefox.exe + 0x12c3f4 (0x0052c3f4)
firefox.exe + 0x13dd9a (0x0053dd9a)
firefox.exe + 0x13e25d (0x0053e25d)
firefox.exe + 0x372248 (0x00772248)
firefox.exe + 0x1012 (0x00401012)
kernel32.dll + 0x214c7 (0x77e614c7)

Benjamin, shoudn't this be related to bug 250680?

Comment 3

[Nagi Peters]

same problem with zip build 20040810.
Deleting compreg.dat like in bug 250680 doesn't help.

Comment 4

[Nagi Peters]

crash with 20040817.
wfm 20040825.
builds between not tested.

Comment 5

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

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