347909 - When I try to start Firefox it crashes and gives a MSVC Runtime error

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[pether]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; (R1 1.5))
Build Identifier: The latest download

I click on desktop icon to open firefox.  It appears to load the page, then it stops and closes the program.  This is the error Messagae that appears in a box:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Program: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusuak way.
Please contact the application’s support team for more information.

I tried to uninstall and reinstall, but my computer will not let me uninstall through control panel.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click on desktop icon
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Crashed the program every time

Expected Results:  
Should have loaded the program and gone to my home page.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Please retry with a new profile and a new Firefox installation.
To get rid of the previous installation, just delete the folder Mozilla Firefox, presumably in Program Files.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Which version of Firefox are you using?

Comment 3

[pether]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Which version of Firefox are you using?

1.8.0.6: 2006072814

Comment 4

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

reporter, are you using the same profile switching back and forth between trunk
and branch builds?  if so this may be related to bug 332972.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter, Do you still see this problem. If you do not, please close the bug with resolution WORKSFORME, INVALID, etc as may be appropriate to your situation (but not FIXED unless you know the bug with the patch). 

If you still see problem using a current version of Firefox or trunk build, please provide additional detail.

Comment 6

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Firefox 2 reached end of life Dec 19 2008.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.20/releasenotes/

If the problem still remains in that version then you can try
Firefox 3, but then you'd have to upgrade Windows first because
Firefox 3 does not run on Windows 98.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

File a new bug if the problem remains in Firefox 3 or later.
Thanks for your report.

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