273098 - Firefox won't start on XP with SP2

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[steve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

WITH SERVICE PACK 2 U CLICK THE ICON TO START FIREFOX IT LOADS AS A PROCESS BUT
THE BROWSER DOESNT COME UP.I UNINSTALLED SP2 GOING BACK TO SP1 AND IT WORKS.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.HAVE SP2 INSTALLED
2.CLICK THE FIREFOX ICON


Actual Results:  
IT ONLY LOADED AS A PROCESS NOT EVEN SHOWING UP UNDER PROGRAMS RUNNING

Expected Results:  
STARTED UP AND SHOWN THE BROWSER

UNINSTALL SP2 WILL FIXED

Comment 1

[Paul van Schayck]

This is not a place to ask for support. And please, use lowercase. It now looks
like you are yelling at us.

Could you try the steps described here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225894#c32

And tell us if that works.

Comment 2

[steve]

thats for shockwave and mozilla mine is for firefox 1 and winxp sp2 stopping the
browser for coming up. im also not asking for support im reporting the bug and
requesting they release a goddamned fix.


(In reply to comment #1)
> This is not a place to ask for support. And please, use lowercase. It now looks
> like you are yelling at us.
> 
> Could you try the steps described here:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225894#c32
> 
> And tell us if that works.

Comment 3

[Patrick]

Steve, first of all, you might find that people are more helpful if you stop
swearing to people that are trying to help you.

Paul's step were meant to narrow down to cause of your problem. Since Moz and
Firefox share some of the technology, some of the solutions may be the same. So
rather than dismissing the suggestion beforehand: how about you give it a try
and report back here?

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

What for a CPU do you have? Check Bug 237202 and dependents. See Bug 233765 too.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352/EN-US/ or
http://www.tech-recipes.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=398 how to
disable DEP for Firefox to test it.

Comment 5

[Robert Harris]

after upgrade from windows 98 to windows xp Firefox will not function?
I did a re-install of firefox and it still won't funtion?

Comment 6

[Chris Blore]

This worksforme with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+. 

->WORKSFORME

Steve, if you continue to receive a problem, please do post another comment to
this bug but as you have not replied since December, I'm resolving this as
worksforme.