301756 - At Startup, Frequently No Home Page(s) or Access to Menus

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Ronald W. Heiby]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

On two different Win2K Pro systems, one with 1.0.5 and one with 1.0.6 (and
earlier, at least as far back as 1.0.4), it usually takes me several attempts at
starting Firefox before I get a "normal" execution. By that, I mean one where my
home pages are loaded into the multiple tabs and things like Alt-F bring down
the File menu.

Usually, the first N attempts to start Firefox give me no page loaded and no way
to access any of the menu items, either via keyboard or mouse. Right-click on
the menu bar to bring up the toolbar menu also fails.

The only workaround I have so far is to exit Firefox and try starting it again.
Eventually, I do get a normal startup and things work pretty well. Usually, this
happens within about a half dozen attempts. I've had at least one instance of
more than a couple dozen attempts before success. At first, I thought rebooting
Windows might help, but that does not seem to reliably be the case. Althouth
this happens to me nearly every time, it does not *always* happen, and the
number of failed starts before success varies.

My home pages are not really anything special. On one of my systems, i have the
following: my personal home page, which is pretty generic HTML; slashdot.org and
newsforge.com; a local instance of Bugzilla (2.18); and a "Roaming-Nomad" page,
but the HTML it emits doesn't seem that weird. On my other system, I have pretty
much the same stuff, but not the local Bugzilla.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:




I am using the default theme (the only one I have installed).

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Sounds like you have a bad extension installed. Do you see this when you start
Firefox in safe mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Dou you use a proxy with automatic proxy configuration (PAC)?

Comment 3

[Ronald W. Heiby]

Since removing all extensions, I have not seen this problem happen again.
Foolishly, I neglected to write down all of the extensions that I had loaded.
However, after re-installing the couple I actually used, I still haven't seen
the problem again.

In answer to the more recent question, one of the two systems is behind a proxy,
but it is manually configured.

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

Incompatible extension was the cause.

Comment 5

[Ronald W. Heiby]

Agree with the resolution. Sorry for the trouble.