271067 - trivially broken profile makes firefox not open any windows (only process is running)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Radek 'sysKin' Czyz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Once upon a time, my profile stopped working. I decided to make a testcase out
of it, in a hope that it will help making firefox more robust against "broken"
profiles.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy two files that I will attach (chrome/chrome.rdf and
chrome/overlayinfo/browser/content/overlays.rdf) to a new profile.
2. Start firefox with this profile.


Actual Results:  
Browser doesn't start - process starts, but no window opens.

Expected Results:  
Firefox can handle such a simple problem and start anyways.

This is a minimal testcase. I guess the "magic" is in
chrome/overlayinfo/browser/content/overlays.rdf, which is referencing a
non-existing chrome component (a leftover from some extension, I guess).

Whatever happens here, making firefox deal with it gracefully seems like a good
idea. Profiles break too often....

Comment 1

[Radek 'sysKin' Czyz]

Attachment: the two files

Comment 2

[Radek 'sysKin' Czyz]

Well, five months later this bug is WFM, simply because the entire EM handling
changed.
Too bad stability changes happen by accident.