Re: Firefox v38.2.1 will not start

Dave Yeo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.os2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi John,
Long time since hearing from you.

On 04/11/16 09:13 AM, John Poltorak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a long absence from OS/2 I thought I'd have a look at what's new...
>
> ...and have just seen an anouncement that a new version of Firefox has just
> been released.
>
> Does anyone have it working?
>
> I've been trying for a couple of days but haven't finally cracked it yet.
>
> AKAIK all the DLL's required are available.
>
> Firefox does not crash, it just appears to start but stops soon afterwards.
>
> Nothing appears on screen - no error msgs or anything...
>
> Is there a command line parameter I can use to trace any activity?

Usually it is a DLL conflict or possibly Fontconfig not being installed 
correctly.
Do you have any *.trp files in your program directory?
See the README for hints on redirecting output to a file and possible 
environment variables and how to correctly setup exceptq.
What version of OS/2 are you testing on/
Dave
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