268623 - after upgrade from 1.0rc2 to 1.0 firefox does not start anymore with old profile

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Marc Staudacher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

I had Firefox 1.0RC2 on my computer. I uninstalled 1.0RC2. I installed 1.0
(de-DE). Then I switched to my normal non-admin user account. Now, I get the
following error message instead of the normal Firefox screen every time I start
Firefox 1.0:

        title="&mainWindow.title;"
---------------^


            keycode="&openHelp.commandkey;"/>
---------------------^


    <key id="key_inspectPage" key="&inspectorTaskCmd.commandkey;"
modifiers="accel, shift" command="Tasks:InspectPage"/>
-----------------------------------^

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
Actual Results:  
An error message appears:
        title="&mainWindow.title;"
---------------^


            keycode="&openHelp.commandkey;"/>
---------------------^


    <key id="key_inspectPage" key="&inspectorTaskCmd.commandkey;"
modifiers="accel, shift" command="Tasks:InspectPage"/>
-----------------------------------^

Expected Results:  
Firefox should load normally and show me a browser window

If I create a new profile and use this to start Firefox, then problem disappears.

Comment 1

[Patrick]

By the looks of it, i think it's a messed up profile, properly because of
extensions that are not compatible with your new Firefox [or perhaps broken
internationalization?]

Not much we can do about it now other then recommending to create a new profile
[which you already did] and try to salvage parts from your old profile
[bookmarks etc].

But can you let us know if you had any extensions etc?

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

when you upgraded, did you choose to not install the developer tools (DOM
Inspector)?  it may be the case that that is causing the problem.

Comment 3

[Marc Staudacher]

Thank you for your fast reply. I salvaged the valuable parts.

When I installed Firefox 1.0, the build language changed: Previously I was using
en-US builds. Now I am using de-DE builds. That is, the old profil was created
by an english build.

Regarding comment #2: Actually it was the other way round: I had the "DOM
Inspector" extension *not* installed with Firefox 1.0RC2. But I installed the
extension with version 1.0.

The only properly installed (and active) extension was Adblock. From earlier
Firefox versions there were some left-overs from deinstalled or disabled
extensions and themes:

- language pack de-DE
- bluemonkey_09.jar
- phoenity_1.3.jar
- Noia2_Full_2.77.jar
- qute_2.1.3.jar
- Noia2_lite_2.79.jar
- industrial.jar
- ScribbliesBrite-0_4.jar (have fun with it)

If it helps you I can attach chrome.rdf and extensions.rdf. Or close the "bug".

Suggestion: I'd be nice if Firefox failed gracefully. Say that there is a
problem with the profile and ask the user whether he wants to have his valuable
parts be copied to a new profile.

Comment 4

[Adler Rothschild]

I just did an upgrade and the same thing happened. I moved the profile to 
another directory with a different name.  Uninstalled through control panel. 
Reinstalled the following:firefox nightly build 12/07.04 Win32 installer. 
clean profile. I got the same title = main window.  
I have this firefox (9.1+ installed elsewhere and it works fine.) using the 
new firefox 1.0 profile. I shall now downlaod the 1.0 release  and see what 
happens. <
Mmmmmmmmm the standard firefox 1.0 installed perfectly.  Maybe it is the Dec 
7th nightly build.

Comment 5

[Jan Vlug]

I installed: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6)
Gecko/20041221 Firefox/1.0+.
The problem has disappeared -> worksforme.

Comment 6

[Patrick]

Marc, does it work for you now as well?

Comment 7

[Marc Staudacher]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Marc, does it work for you now as well?

I installed the trunk build 2004-12-21-07:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041221
Firefox/1.0+

With this build I can start Firefox using the old profile without having the
reported problem.

Summary:

- 1.0RC2 en-US: works
- 1.0 (release) de-DE: does not work
- 1.0+ (trunk build 2004-12-21-07) en-US: works

So, it remains to be seen whether a localized build will work.

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 278696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***