293786 - Specifying an invalid chrome command line launches the app with no visible main window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91820

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jason De Arte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050505 Firefox/1.0.2

If I launch firefox to specifically launch a chrome package that is not 
installed on the system, firefox will start - but it will never display it's 
main window.
Rather than running in limbo, the application should print an error to the 
console if the chrome package is not installed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close all instances of FireFox
2. Find the name of a chrome component that is not installed on your system.  
I chose "obviouslybogus"
3. Run "firefox.exe -chrome chrome://obviouslybogus/content"
Actual Results:  
*. Did not recieve any error messages via the console or by pop-up that the 
chrome module could not be located
*. No firefox windows were displayed
*. windows task manager shows that firefox.exe is running

Expected Results:  
I would have expected a warning message telling me that the chrome 
module "chrome://obviouslybogus/content" could not be found.

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Is this still reproducable using a recent nightly build?
http://www.mozilla.org/developer

60+ day inactive -- INVALID in 72 hours, otherwise reassigned to owner

Comment 2

[Jason De Arte]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Is this still reproducable using a recent nightly build?

Yes, it is still reproducable in the lastest nightly build I could find.
I tested it on http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2005-07-
09-04-aviary1.0.1/

Comment 3

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

(In reply to comment #2)
> Yes, it is still reproducable in the lastest nightly build I could find.
> I tested it on http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2005-07-
> 09-04-aviary1.0.1/

Thats not the latest nigtly, thats a branch nightly that only contains security
fixes. Please test with a trunk nightly:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 4

[Jason De Arte]

> Thats not the latest nigtly, thats a branch nightly that only contains 
security
> fixes. Please test with a trunk nightly:
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

I just D/L it.  The defect is still reproducable in that version as well.