can't run mozillafirebird.exe

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 10th, 2003, 7:55 pm

Everytime I try to run MozillaFirebird.exe, it hangs. What the hell....

Post by **nosebleed** » August 10th, 2003, 7:59 pm

OS? Which build are you trying to use? Please be more specific.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 10th, 2003, 8:02 pm

XP Pro, IE6 All updates updated
I even tried rebooting in case something was wrong

466 celeron w/ 256mb ram
I hope it doesn't need huge amounts of ram.. I don't get this
It hangs with 'Resolving host www.mozilla.org' in the status bar

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 10th, 2003, 8:05 pm

downloaded the latest release (.7?)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 10th, 2003, 8:08 pm

actually it's 0.6.1

and the mozillafirebird.exe
has a file version of 1.5a: 2003072801 in the properties dialog

scragz · Post by **scragz** » August 10th, 2003, 8:14 pm

If you have bookmarks that point to local folder (and files?) in your IE favorites, then FB does that when it tries to import them. This might not be your problem, but it’s the first thing that came to mind. The solution is to add this line:

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user_pref("browser.bookmarks.added_static_root", true);

into prefs.js located in your profile folder.

Give that a try and if it doesn’t work, then we can find another solution.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 10th, 2003, 8:26 pm

there isn't any prefs.js anywhere on my computer...
I inserted the line at the end of /defaults/pref/all.js

and It got all the way to 'Transferring data from www.mozilla.org' before hanging..
remember I'm on xp, running mozilla out of a folder on my desktop

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 10th, 2003, 8:31 pm

okay i found it.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default\ju8z0rgc.slt

I have never heard of this extension, but I guess windows search can't search it cuz it's inside this file

gonna try mozilla post back after

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 10th, 2003, 8:36 pm

Got it to work! You guys shouldn't see any more guest posts from me

thanks scragz!