526211 - [WINCE] Firefox does not start

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[İsmail Dönmez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.232.0 Safari/532.4
Build Identifier: 

I built Firefox from mozilla-central HG repository, using the suggested mozconfig from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Tegra/Build_Notes . Copied the build to a WinCE 6.0 machine and clicked firefox icon, but the splash screen moves a little and then Firefox closes itself.

I tried to attach with the debugger but the application exists cleanly. There does not seem to be a crash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double click firefox.exe on the device
2. Notice that the splash screen is shown
3. Firefox closes itself before showing the main screen.
Actual Results:  
Firefox does not start.

Expected Results:  
Firefox shows the main screen.

Comment 1

[İsmail Dönmez]

Btw using Visual Studio 2008 as the compiler.

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Does the cab file from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ run on your machine?

Comment 3

[İsmail Dönmez]

Tried firefox-3.7a1pre.en-US.wince-arm and trying to run Firefox.exe results in an error message box:

"Application FIREFOX.exe encountered a serious error and must be shut down."

Then the dialog box automatically closes itself.

The device have a Freescale i.MX31 CPU and 90mb of RAM.

Comment 4

[İsmail Dönmez]

Tested my build on a Windows CE 5.0 device and the same problem happens, Firefox screen exits before finishing loading. Also it doesn't seem to be a memory problem since the system has 70mb of free RAM.

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

This year we mothballed windows mobile development.  See:

  http://blog.pavlov.net/2010/03/22/stopping-development-for-windows-mobile/

Marking bugs in the windows mobile / windows ce bucket as WONTFIX.