290693 - Firefox crashes if Import selected from File Menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 255858

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Thomas Sawyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When attempting to import IE Favorites under Windows 95 or Windows 98, either
just after installing FireFox (or anytime after rebooting and subsequently
restarting Firefox), selecting IMPORT from the File menu results in a page
fault. The operating system reports the following:

FIREFOX caused an invalid page fault in
module FIREFOX.EXE at 0137:0086cd19.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=0086cd19 EFLGS=00010297
EBX=00000000 SS=013f ESP=00c9c448 EBP=00c9c474
ECX=00000001 DS=013f ESI=6030d3ee FS=120f
EDX=00c9c45c ES=013f EDI=027a1900 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 ff 51 0c 8b 1d f0 7e 8a 00 8d 4d e8 ff d3 
Stack dump:
00000000 00c9c45c 027a191c 027a1918 602d4f28 603135a8 00a37c68 00000007 00000001
00dc39b4 00000000 00c9c498 0086cc8f 00c9c66c 00c9c4d0 00d76c0a

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start FireFox
2. Select Import


Actual Results:  
Program crashes.

Expected Results:  
Since I have never gotten beyond this point, I have never seen what is supposed
to happen.

The Bookmarks.html file appears to contain all of the Imported IE favorites, but
they do not show up in the Firefox Bookmarks menu. Thus, it appears the
bookmarks were successfully imported at some point. Strangely, of the hundreds
of IE bookmarks, only two bookmarks presently appear from the IE Favorites and
there is no file artifact or registry entry that contains either of them them (I
searched the entire disk). Thus, the next question is: Where are the two
successfully-imported bookmarks being stored? Knowing the answer to this might
give a clue as to what is causing the crash. My wild guess is that this is in
some way related to corruption in a Firefox binary file. I would be glad to
provide additional information if needed.

Comment 1

[Thomas Sawyer]

The page fault information shown below was generated on a plain vanilla PC with
256K RAM running Windows 95 SP2 with IE 5.5 installed. Only 3 programs loaded as
part of startup list: AtiKey32, Starter and CookiePatrol.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please provide a talkback ID from that crash.
(Talkback should popup after the crash. Submit the report and run
firefox\components\talkback.exe to get the ID after the crash)

Comment 3

[Thomas Sawyer]

(???) I'm afraid there is no such path as "firefox\components\talkback.exe" nor 
is there any such program as "talkback.exe" anywhere on my hard drive.

The version that is crashing is:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
    Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

as reported by the Firefox "About" dialogue. Please do advise if you need 
anything else from me.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Install 1.0.3 with talkback (use costum installation and be sure that Talkback
is checked).

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

Bug 255858  	Firefox crashes under Windows 95 when File/Import... is clicked [@
nsPhoenixProfileMigrator::FillProfileDataFromPhoenixRegistry]

Win95 isn't officially supported for Firefox.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255858 ***

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change