Closed Bug 266193 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

error on startup after installation

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: bates, Assigned: bryner)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0

I get a number of error messages when I try to start the new release of Firefox.
 the error messages mention something about an entry point.

I am using a PC compatible with a 1 GHz Athlon processor and 256 MBytes of RAM.
 I have an 80 GByte hard drive with 10 GBytes available.  I am using a DSL modem
at 256kbps, via a local ISP in Monterey, CA.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  install Firefox, standard options.
2.  try to start firefox.  error box comes up, clicking "OK" brings up another
error box.  These cycle and cannot be removed except by using Task Manager to
stop the process (takes several tries, too!).
3.

Actual Results:  
I reinstalled Firefox 1.0 again, then tried again.  No luck.  Fortunately, I
still had a copy of Firefox 0.8 so I reinstalled that, then all was well.  Now
running version 0.8

Expected Results:  
started normally.  expected to have to reset the home page and possibly import
my old bookmarks from version 0.8.

incidentally, I also expected the install program to tell me that it recognized
version 0.8 and give me the option to migrate my bookmarks.  This did not happen
during installation.
Assignee: nobody → bryner
Product: Browser → Firefox
QA Contact: core.build-config → asa
could you please add the exact error message?
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:46:13 -0700
From: bates at redshift <bates@redshift.com>
To: bugzilla-daemon@mozilla.org
Subject: RE: [Bug 266193] error on startup after installation

In order to replicate the message, I will have to reinstall the product
(version 1.0), then try to start it, save the error message, then reinstall
version 0.8 so I can get on line again.

You want me to do this?

Seth Bates

Is this still an issue? This bug report is incomplete.
This is caused by installing over a previous version, something the release
notes say not to do. Marking WFM.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Component: Build Config → General
Product: Firefox → Firefox Build System
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