Bug 294133

Summary:	www-client/mozilla-firefox doesn't start if ~/firefox directory exists
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Neil Skrypuch <gentoo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530704
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Neil Skrypuch 2009-11-23 06:25:13 UTC

This might be an upstream bug, but if you have a ~/firefox directory (which need not even contain anything), Firefox will not start. Observe:

neil@x2-42 ~ $ mkdir firefox
neil@x2-42 ~ $ firefox
Could not read application.ini
neil@x2-42 ~ $ rmdir firefox
neil@x2-42 ~ $ firefox
neil@x2-42 ~ $

(The second run was successful.)

I had an old beta binary of firefox directly from their site sitting around in my home directory, and after a recent update (from www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.2 to www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.5) Firefox decided that it didn't want to start anymore. Discovering the above issue was very non-obvious.

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2009-11-23 14:49:30 UTC

Please report bug upstream and cc mozilla@gentoo.org

Comment 2 Neil Skrypuch 2009-11-24 01:36:53 UTC

Done: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530704

Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2010-12-29 04:14:38 UTC

Thanks for the report, this is such a small minority I will continue to track via upstream bug.