425579 - Consistent Crash on startup Vista Ultimate

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kent McNeer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Firefox Beta 4

FF B4 immediately crashes on startup after installation on Vista Ultimate.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install FF B4 on Win Vista Ultimate
2.try to launch FF
3.
Actual Results:  
application crash

Expected Results:  
normal start-up

Intel Core 2 Duo-7200
Dell XPS-1210
2gb RAM
WIn Vista Ultimate, SP1

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

D you crash in the Firefox safemode ?
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode

if yes: Please provide a Breakpad crash id from about:crashes

Comment 2

[Kent McNeer]

I had the latest production version of FF installed. 
In a CMD window, I navigated to the FF3 Beta 4 directory & executed :
firefox.exe -safe-mode

It ran the production version.

I uninstalled the production, leaving B4. B4 starts & runs in regular mode.
?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I don't know why you got this problem but i think it seems to work now for you