292221 - On win2k sp4 Firefox 1.0.3 won;t start unless I try many times/kill firefox active process.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[vincent easton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

1 GB memory, 2.80GHz system, no lack of resources...........
Have to stop firefox process in order to start copy(copies).

I do not use win/XP. Only 2000 Pro SP4.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot system
2. attempt to start firefox 1 or more times
3. stop firefox process in Task Manager (now 36,908k)
4. Firefox will start immediately
Actual Results:  
ok after terminating process.

Expected Results:  
start immediately, not after 15 minutes (untried).

Kerio PF disabled for testing. Kaspersky AV always is running.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This is obviously not the experience most people have... anything about your
particular setup that might be unique?

Is something launching firefox (or the default browser) at startup? (next start
check the task manager for firefox before you try to launch it manually)

Do you have Java installed? Certain interactions with Java are known to produce
"zombie" firefox instances, but that's usually firefox not going away completely
at shutdown, not a startup issue.

Not a security exploit, clearing confidential flag.

Comment 2

[vincent easton]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is obviously not the experience most people have... anything about your
> particular setup that might be unique?
> 
> Is something launching firefox (or the default browser) at startup? (next start
> check the task manager for firefox before you try to launch it manually)
> 
> Do you have Java installed? Certain interactions with Java are known to produce
> "zombie" firefox instances, but that's usually firefox not going away completely
> at shutdown, not a startup issue.
> 
> Not a security exploit, clearing confidential flag.


JAVA 2 Platform Standard Edition v1.5.0(build 1.5.0_01_b08) is ok

I reinstalled Firefox 1,0,3 a couple of times, now runnning ok in safe mode,
so I assume an extension is bad. I just have to isolate which one. Spoofstick
in pixelzilla does not run, but that's reported elsewhere.

In safe mode everything (tabbed browsing etc. is perfect...) thanks for everything!!

Comment 3

[vincent easton]

seems to be a problem extension. 

Comment 4

[Daniel Berube]

same occurs here with lastest patches to W2k and Forefox 1.0.6 with lots of
extensions for testing.

process starts OK, first time.  When Firefox is closed process does not stop. 
Must go to task manager to kill process before restarting Firefox.

dRb sends

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

1.0.3/1.0.6 is now a little old. 

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070218 BonEcho/2.0.0.2pre and as well on Firefox 2.0.0.2 rc5

Resolving this as wfm. Please retest with a latest Build/Release.

If Firefox won`t start please try to start Firefox in Safe Mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode)

If Firefox.exe is always open - see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox.exe_always_open