293529 - opened browser is blank and dll error pops up, says firefox.exe- Entry Point Not Found

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247443

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[harsh_dingo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.0.3

I downloaded the latest version of Firefox 1.0.3 and it intalled with no 
problem, but when I try to open the browser, whether I double-click on the icon 
or once on the quick-launch bar, a message pops up with the browser blank, and 
it keeps popping up whenever I say "OK" then after the page finally loads, it 
goes to this url:

http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

here is the error that would keep popping up:

firefox.exe - Entry Point Not Found
The procedure entry point? TonewUTF8String@@YAPADABUnsAString@@@Z could not be 
located in the dynamic link library xpcom.dll

This error pops up (5) times before the browser loads, and after that, it pops 
up no matter where I click on the page, even on right-click. (The only place it 
doesn't come up immediately is on the top blue bar of the browser, where I have 
to double-click before it comes up)

I'm no pro, so I don't touch dlls no matter how many duplicates I have, so I 
don't know how it went missing, or what the error's really about.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click or Double click on any browser icon, including safe mode
Actual Results:  
error pops up followed by blank browser
browser eventually loads after I click "OK" on error five(5) times


Expected Results:  
browser to go to my set home page

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

From comment https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247443#c6

I suggest redownloading firefox and reinstalling (uninstall existing version first).



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247443 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247443 ***