586257 - 20100811 Firefox nightly for Windows x64 will not start

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 586350

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Marley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100810 Minefield/4.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100810 Minefield/4.0b4pre

After updating to the latest Firefox nightly build on my Windows 7 x64 system, Firefox will no longer start.  When executed, it dies silently without displaying a crash dialog or anything.  Reverting to yesterday's nightly works around the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch firefox
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Actual Results:  
Firefox does nothing.

Expected Results:  
Firefox launches.

Comment 1

[Hunyady Márton]

The same happened with me, but I use Windows 7 32 bit version.
I restarted Minefield to apply the latest nightly update. The updater closed, but nothing happened.
After launching Minefield, it appears in the task manager, but it almost immediately disappears. I tried all my profiles, and none of them worked.
If I start firefox.exe with the -P parameter, then the crash reporter appears. If I click to the restart button, it appears again and again, but it doesn't start.

Build ID in the application.ini file: 20100811063038

Comment 2

[timeless]

Hunyady Márton: for the time being, please assume that your bug is not related to a bug about the w64 builds. Please find/file a different bug.

Comment 3

[timeless]

actually, it's quite likely this is bug 530447

Comment 4

[Hunyady Márton]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hunyady Márton: for the time being, please assume that your bug is not related
> to a bug about the w64 builds. Please find/file a different bug.

I filed it: Bug 586343

Comment 5

[timeless]

thanks. fwiw, duplicates are ok. I'm going to assume that this indeed is the same as your bug.

Unfortunately we don't have symbols for 64bit builds for windows which makes using them basically a huge waste of my time.