544828 - firefox-3.6.0 crashes when ProfileManager is started

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[JackyRyan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

on my gentoo box when installing the firefox-bin-3.6.0 package,
when having set
StartWithLastProfile=0
in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini and/or starting "firefox-bin
-ProfileManager" the browser silently crashes. no locked up process, no
messages in the console, nada.
in firefox-bin-3.5.7 it still works.

as reported on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303905 but i was referred to here

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install package
2. invoke "firefox-bin -ProfileManager"
3. ...
Actual Results:  
browser doesn't start, silent return to commandline

Expected Results:  
i can haz teh internetz

Comment 1

[JackyRyan]

as of version 3.6.2 i cannot reproduce the error any more... closing it...