437313 - On Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) Firefox 3 rc2 will not load pages through location bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 417037

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Silas Snider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008053008 Firefox/3.0

I open firefox. I am presented with a totally blank (tabless, white) screen (see attached image). When I type an address into the location bar and either click the 'go' button, or hit the [enter] or [return] keys, nothing happens whatsoever. If I click the 'home' button, I go to Firefox Start, and all links work, including links from a google search. However, the location bar is always blank.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. Type an address into the location bar
3. Hit [enter], [return] or the 'Go' button
Actual Results:  
Absolutely nothing -- I get no response from the UI at all, and no messages appear in Console.

Expected Results:  
I should have been presented with the website whose url I entered

The user account I'm using is an OpenDirectory user account (from an Xserve) and the home directory is mounted using AFP. I say this, since Firefox 3 rc2 works fine on the local administrator account for which neither of these is true.

Comment 1

[Silas Snider]

Attachment: Screenshot of broken firefox 3 taken in 'normal' mode.

Comment 2

[Silas Snider]

Attachment: Broken interface taken when Firefox 3 was in 'safe-mode'

Comment 3

[Silas Snider]

In addition, I tried the troubleshooting steps of running in safe mode (produced the same result although the window started out in an extremely small size) and creating a new profile (which behaved in exactly the same manner).

I also forgot to mention that Firefox 3 rc2 never cleans up its lock files in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/[some_profile] so I have to continuously delete the files to run it more than once.

Comment 4

[Thomas Markus]

I can reproduce this problem here on many 10.4.11 Tiger machines. These machines are netbooting and the users' home directory is on an AFP-share. I also tried runing ff3 from an NFS share. 
I tried deleting the existing profile and then runing ff3rc2 which didn't solve the issue.

Running firefox -jsconsole returns the following:

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Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///private/Network/Servers/fourier.students.phil.uu.nl/Volumes/StudlyData/Users/tmarkus/Desktop/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsBrowserGlue.js :: bg__initPlaces :: line 386"  data: no]
Source File: file:///private/Network/Servers/fourier.students.phil.uu.nl/Volumes/StudlyData/Users/tmarkus/Desktop/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsBrowserGlue.js
Line: 386
 
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///private/Network/Servers/fourier.students.phil.uu.nl/Volumes/StudlyData/Users/tmarkus/Desktop/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/modules/utils.js :: anonymous :: line 97"  data: no]
 
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/search/search.xml :: get_searchService :: line 145"  data: no]
 
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/search/search.xml :: initialize :: line 527"  data: no]
 
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY) [nsIDocShellHistory.useGlobalHistory]"  nsresult: "0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: prepareForStartup :: line 821"  data: no]
 
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIObserverService.removeObserver]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: BrowserShutdown :: line 1019"  data: no]

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Comment 5

[Silas Snider]

I should have mentioned that I'm running 10.5.0 BTW.