271973 - startup problems (crash) after profiles dialog

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[eric]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

Sometimes firefox does not start correctly. I have 2 imported profiles from
older firefox versions 0.8 + 0.9. The profiles dialog comes up every time on
startup, but when I chosse a profile (the dialog disappears) and nothing more
happens!
The Taskmanager shows that firefox.exe is loaded (with about 11 MB) into Memory,
but I got no navigator window. SO I have to kill the process and try again.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. import / use profiels from older versions at least 2 profiles
2. start FF.
3. if it startsup correctly close FF and retry
4. in 5 of 10 cases FF does not start
Actual Results:  
(see detail above)

Expected Results:  
startup correctly with displaying a navigator window

this problem never happens at first startup of FF after booting Windows.
Always after closing FF the first time this problem appears in 5 of 10 cases

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Are you sure it's not extensions-related?

Comment 2

[Lazikas]

Almost same problem with FF, here. After the 'Select profile' dialog, FF refuses 
to start up and crashes. I get an 'Application Error. The instruction at 
"0x7801065f" referenced memory at 0x00. The memory could not be "read '.

BUT, this happened after i downloaded and installed two plugins (as far as i 
remember it was flash and sockwave viewers). 

Problem did not fixed even with uninstall and re-install, so i have no browser 
now :). I believe that the problem is on plugins, so can someone tell me how to 
fix this? ( I tried to erase the 'plugins' directory from FF setup directory but 
with no luck...

L.