474267 - removing profile folder listed in profile.ini causes firefox unable to start.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 278860

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dwi Chandra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090118 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090118 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre

I was running migration test for Firefox 3.1 in Windows7.
Upon removing the current mozilla firefox's profile, I encountered the following situation:
- when I remove the folder pointed in profiles.ini, firefox failed to start with the following error message: "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
Afterwards, firefox was not able to start.
- when I remove the profile.ini, firefox was able to start, and it creates a new profile.ini as well as a new profile folder.

This is not happening in earlier firefox migration test that I did (nor any stable firefox that I used before).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
For Windows7:
1. Quit firefox, make sure it is no longer running in the process etc
2. Open the profile location and rename/remove 'profile' folder while leaving profile.ini intact
3. Re-run firefox
Actual Results:  
Firefox should start and create a new profile (or re-create the profile listed in the profile.ini)

Expected Results:  
Firefox came out with "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system."
... and not able to run after clicking 'OK'.
Restarting the PC did not help.

If I remove profile.ini, no such error and firefox will run as normal.
Also, if profile.ini removed, firefox will keep creating a new profiles inside 'profile' folder.

Comment 1

[Dwi Chandra]

Please contact me at [e-mail] for the time being.
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