368602 - crashes immediately upon starting firefox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Noname]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0.0.1&os=win&lang=en-GB

Crashes upon running Firefox always. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Crash!
3. Close Firefox
Actual Results:  
An error window is produced with the following text: 
"firefox.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program.

An error log is being created."

Click "OK" and Firefox closes.

Expected Results:  
Loaded up the default homepage and not generate any errors.

No Talkback crash ID is available, the extension simply sends the report but doesn't give an ID.

Comment 1

[Noname]

Attachment: The details provided from Talkback.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

noname, what email address do you use when you submit the talkback report?

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

WFM using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1. I would tend to suspect some kind of extension issue, would h\be helpful if the reporter would include that information.

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

reporter: do you crash also in safe-mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode)
Do you also crash with a new profile (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager)

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> incomplete  due to no response from reporter
please reopen with crashid if you still see problem using FF3

Comment 6

[David Bourguignon]

I'm still experiencing this in Firefox v8 latest. This problem has been around for a while (since v6 at least IIRC). 

Apparently, there are plenty of bugs on the topic:
Bug 653706
Bug 650384
Bug 639332
Bug 368602

A few extra info:

- The problem occurs 90% of the time at startup, even before "touching" Firefox.

- Following a useful tip (http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_10.html) I've changed the default setting of one environment variable (namely browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs) in order to get the same behavior as the defunct BarTab plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/bartab/). This in order to avoid loading more than one saved tabs at startup. (By the way, why isn't this the default behavior?)

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for your interest But there is nothing useful  in this bug that warrants further attention. Please focus your interest in a new bug or just one or two recent bugs

Comment 8

[David Bourguignon]

Alright. Thanks for your answer!