691063 - Shortcuts stopped working after resetting my PC as Firefox was opening

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Sebastian]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1

Steps to reproduce:

My computer was running for some time, and just as I clicked on FireFox on my quick bar (or whatever the shortcuts at the side of the windows logo are called on the bottom, in windows 7), I realized I wanted to restart the computer first, so without any thought I restarted it immediately, before FireFox actually opened.


Actual results:

After the computer turned back on again, whenever I click FireFox in the Quick Bar, I get a message: "Can't open this item: It might have been moved, renamed or deleted. Do you want to remove this item? [YES] [NO]", and if I click a shortcut on the desktop, it says "XULRunner: Error: App:Name not specified in application.ini".


Expected results:

Obviously, FireFox should have opened normally after the PC turned back on again.

Side note: I didn't list my firefox version because I can't remember it. But I followed the usual automatic updates so you should know what the version was.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Then it is Firefox 7.

Can you post the contents of the mentioned file application.ini?

Comment 2

[Sebastian]

I'm sorry, I already reinstalled FireFox to fix the problem.
If you make a search on google about the error "App:Name not specified in application.ini" you should find someone's post that has his/hers application.ini contents after the same error occured to them.

I reported this not because I didn't know how to fix it on my PC, I reported it because it would be nice if it never happened to anyone again :)

Comment 3

[:aceman]

Well you could post your file so that we are sure it is the same problem as reported on the web elsewhere.
If you talk about the report at http://support.mozilla.com/sk/questions/751633, then yes, the contents of the file are there. However they do not contain what normal application.ini file (in \Firefox) should contain. It seems like it got overwritten with some garbage. Either by Windows, or Firefox itself. It seems this file is touched (maybe rewritted) at each Firefox start.
Can you at least tell how you restarted your system? Using the standard Windows 7 Restart button?

Comment 4

[Sebastian]

All right, I'll post the current contents of the application.ini after I get back from work (I'm leaving to work right now).
I restarted the system using the restart button on my PC (a physical one), so it restarted immediately.

Comment 5

[:aceman]

If you already fixed (reinstalled) the file, it is not needed anymore. I wanted the broken file.

But I will confirm the bug as there are several reports of it on the web. So that the developers that know why Firefox is overwriting the file can see if the corruption can be avoided.
However, there is not much an application can do, when the OS is forcefully restarted.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

XULRunner has been removed from the Mozilla tree: see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/_rFMunG2Bgw for context.

I am closing all the bugs currently in the XULRunner bugzilla component, in preparation for moving this component to the graveyard. If this bug is still valid in a XULRunner-less world, it will need to be moved to a different bugzilla component to be reopened.