401885 - [10.5] Firefox crashes when I launch it on Leopard

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[John Chamberlin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10
Build Identifier: Firefox 2.0.0.8 

Firefox crashes every time I open it in Leopard 10.5. It opens, then attempts to load the home page, but then crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Trashed the software twice, then downloaded another from the website
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Continues to crash


Firefox does not seem to be compatiable with Leopard 10.5 as is, at least not on my G5 with a PowerPc processor

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

does this crash happen on every website ?

Comment 2

[John Chamberlin]

(In reply to comment #1)
> does this crash happen on every website ?

A Good question. The problem now is that Firefox crashes so fast after it loads my home page (www.refdesk.com) that I don't have time to change the page to find out? How about trying www.refdesk.com and see if you crash as well?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Here's one way to launch Firefox without it showing your home page:

1. Launch Terminal.app (in /Applications/Utilities/)

2. Type or paste the following and press enter:
     /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox about:blank

(If your copy of Firefox is in a different location, type that location instead of "/Applications/Firefox.app/", or drag Firefox to the Terminal window.)

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

(In reply to comment #2)
> ge (www.refdesk.com) that I don't have time to change the page to
> find out? How about trying www.refdesk.com and see if you crash as well?

I get no crash on that website using Firefox 3 beta 2

Comment 5

[Bob Uliss]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031404 Minefield/3.0b5pre

Navigate to:
www.refdesk.com
No crash seen on MAC  - fresh profile + fresh dowload

Comment 6

[Bob Uliss]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

Can NOT Reproduce - need exact steps to see the crash.

Automatically updated to ver 2.0.0.9 -
Navigate to:
http://www.refdesk.com/
No problems encountered.
recommend close this bug - unless it can be reproduced.

Comment 7

[erwan bernard]

No news from owner in many months.
If issue still occurs with FF2.0.16 with a new profile, please re-open.
closing as WFM for now.