276926 - Windows Fail to Open and Render

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Dunn]

Windows 2000 Pro, workhorse of a machine running everything from Thunderbird 1.0
and Mozilla 1.7.1 to MySQL and IIS and Diablo II.  Installed Firefox 1.0 over
0.9.3.  Extensions seemed to update fine (those it could - others disabled) and
install went swimmingly.  First window presented would not render any content
nore would it show my personal toolbar bookmarks.  Ctrl-U did show me the actual
HTML of the page it should have been rendering.  A couple of restarts later and
much other finageling, finally ran install program again.  Could get window to
render properly.  Tabs open fine, but cannot get a second window to open -
neither from the shortcut (or actual exectable, Ctrl-N, File - New Window, or
opening a HTML document on my computer).  No application features executed once
in this state.  i.e. OS events (maximize, minimize, close) still functioned. 
Menus, opening hyperlinks, and basically anything else failed to work.  Even
after closing the original window, Task Manager still reported a Firefox process
which needed to be killed before any further use of Firefox 1.0 could take
place.  After several more restarts, removing all unusable extensions and some
other efforts, uninstalled Firefox, restarted, and installed 1.0 again.  The
same new window behavior was experienced but at least it rendered content the
first time it started.  Finally, located 0.9.3 in my downloads folder
(fortuantely I hadn't gotten around to cleaning it up lately), uninstalled 1.0
and installed 0.9.3.  New window works just fine now.  Fearful to install 1.0
again over my existing 0.9.3 but will next weekend if you guys want me to see if
it happens again.

I consider this a blocker since the normal operating state is degraded any
attempt to open a second browser window requires the process to be killed
manually before being able to use the program again its degraded state and using
the program in its fully operational state seems impossible.  It is preventing
me from downgrading to 1.0 from my current 0.9.3.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

doesn't block development

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.