Today while testing some software I had to restart FFP. When I tried to start it again, it showed a splash screen, but then there was only silence. After some troubleshooting I started FF directly (not the launcher) and saw a message box saying that there's a dll missing (my launcher's %PATH% changed in between).
To summarize: When something goes wrong, FF informs users about it and lets them deal with the problem. The launcher somehow prevents it from doing this, which is definitely bad.
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Missing Firefox error messages
July 10, 2008 - 1:57pm
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Missing Firefox error messages
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The launcher doesn't do anything to hide the error messages. We just run Firefox passing it a path to the profile. Perhaps Firefox doesn't show the error when passed the path (nothing we can do about this). Which DLL was it since I can't seem to reproduce the situation? And did you try passing it a path when running it directly (command line)?
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It's sqlite3.dll.
What switch should I pass in the command line?
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