937969 - Firefox will not start after upgrading to Firefox 26 Beta 4

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 937972

(Core :: Graphics: Layers, defect)

Description

[James]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131107161719

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start up Firefox 26 Beta 3.
2. Got notification there was a new beta (I have Firefox setup to alert me when new updates are available, but not automatically install them).
3. Install the internal Beta 4 update for Firefox 26.
4. Hit the restart button.


Actual results:

Firefox crashes when attempting to start after hitting the restart button.  It also crashes when I tried to restart after submitting a crash report.


Expected results:

The install should have went smoothly and Firefox should have started.

Here's the crash report id: bp-158c7f39-13f1-4c8b-86de-760242131113

I then after downgraded back to FF 26 Beta 3 (via the installer) and FF starts once again with no problems.

As far as I can tell, something changed between FF 26 Beta 3 & 4 that is causing FF 26 Beta 4 to crash @ start.

Comment 1

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

May be related to bug 934533

Comment 2

[James]

It does look like it, as I do have "gfx.content.azure.enabled=false" set that way because of blurry fonts with my ATI 4850 in FF when that setting is set to "true".

So, if you want to mark it as a duplicate, you may, but only if the fix for this crash is in Beta 5, as I can't use Beta 4 of Firefox 26 because it will not start at all for me with that setting set that way.