542306 - Firefox 3.6 Mac OS X will not launch or exibits strange behavior on Open Directory based logins (home directory hosted on AFP server)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[administrator]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 

I recently upgraded a couple test workstations for our office to Firefox 3.6. The workstations are in the following configuration:

*Mac OS X 10.4.11 PowerPC and Intel workstations. Latest 2009-003 Security updates.
*Workstations store their home directories on an AFP file server (Open Directory roaming login). The AFP Server and the Open Directory master server is running Mac OS X Server 10.62 with the newest security patch. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Firefox 3.57 worked perfectly fine on these systems. However when a non-administrator logs into their workstation with their Open Directory Login and attempts to open Firefox 3.6 the following occurs. This is irregardless if they are running on an Intel or PowerPC Mac:

Actual Results:  
*The Program will bounce on the dock and will refuse to open. 
*The program will open but will show only the Firefox pull down menu. You can quit the program, but no other menus show. The web browser window will not open. 
*The program will open for half a second or two and will then quit. 


Expected Results:  
The software should show the regular Firefox session as it did before in previous versions. 3.6 is totally broken and will not work on AFP hosted home directories. 


This has happened before with previous versions of Firefox (I believe a security update to the 3.0 build, don't remember which version had the issue). This also might be causing issues with users who have their profiles stored on NFS or SMB file servers as well. 

Thanks
Michael Yockey
IT Administrator
Yockey, Yockey and Schliem PC

Comment 1

[Avram Lyon]

We've had a similar report of Firefox crashing when accessing user data over AFP (but not over SMB) in the Zotero forums, for users who have their Zotero data directories mounted via AFP. We haven't pinned this down as a Firefox bug yet, but it sure sounds similar.

Comment 2

[Avram Lyon]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We've had a similar report of Firefox crashing when accessing user data over
> AFP (but not over SMB) in the Zotero forums, for users who have their Zotero
> data directories mounted via AFP. We haven't pinned this down as a Firefox bug
> yet, but it sure sounds similar.

The post on the Zotero forum is http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/14570/ .

Comment 3

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

is it reporudcible on latest build? 
* getfirefox.com
is it also happening on safemode?

Comment 4

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

looks like op is not here around, if you can reproduce, feel free to reopen it!