292532 - wont startup. starts to run then closes. no errors displayed. nothing in logs.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Dan Gahlinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Build Identifier: firefox wont start - directly downloaded from mozilla.org

click firefox to startup. starts to run. then vanishes.
no errors. no warnings. nothing in logs.
just wont run. and cant figure out what is wrong with it.
runing Suse Linux pro v9.3 and the version it came with started having this
problem then I downloaded the latest 1.03 from mozilla.org to try and fix it,
but it still has the problem.

click on icon, shows it is starting up, but the indicator goes away and nothing
happens. no errors in any logs. no messages. no warnings. just doesnt work any more.

need help diagnosing the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click icon. problem reproduces every time
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
it starts to run. it goes away. doesnt run.

Expected Results:  
i expected the firefox window to open.
or at least an error or warning or log.
but nothing

firefox main i guess(?)

Comment 1

[Dan Gahlinger]

finally got this - from running from command line:

INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Expected a version > 5! Version = 4

System error?:: No such file or directory

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You changed your UA and the Java plugin kills Firefox.
Remove the useragentoverride pref in your prefs.js (profile) or create a new
profile.

-> invalid (support questions are invalid in bugzilla, pelase use the
mozillazine.org Forums for help)

Comment 3

[Dan Gahlinger]

i changed the UA because I was having problems with sites forcing me to use IE,
and I really hate sites that do that.

thanks that fixed it!