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Firefox 33.1.1 (newest) will not start with OS X 10.10.2.

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I'm a OS X developer and yesterday upgraded to OS X 10.10.2 and now Firefox will not start. I get the menu bar and then the progress spinner just spins.

The force quit report is rather long, but I use Firefox as my default browser and miss it rather quickly.

Thank you! John

Here is a copy of the force quit report:

Date/Time: 2014-11-22 08:25:53 -0700 OS Version: 10.10.2 (Build 14C68k) Architecture: x86_64h Report Version: 21

Command: Firefox Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox Version: 33.1.1 (3314.11.13) Parent: launchd [1] PID: 1003

Event: hang Duration: 1.60s (process was unresponsive for 10 seconds before sampling) Steps: 17 (100ms sampling interval)

Hardware model: MacBookAir6,1 Active cpus: 4

Fan speed: 1198 rpm


Timeline format: stacks are sorted chronologically Use -i and -heavy to re-report with count sorting


Heaviest stack for the main thread of the target process:

 17  ??? (<FDCF73E5-44F9-31E4-8000-1E3A613AB670> + 1139319) [0x102116277]
 17  __psynch_cvwait + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 90422) [0x7fff9462d136]
*17  psynch_cvcontinue + 0 (pthread + 26908) [0xffffff7f80f4491c]


Process: firefox (Firefox) [1003] Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox Architecture: x86_64 Parent: launchd [1] UID: 501 Task size: 41789 pages (+2) CPU Time: 0.005s Note: Unresponsive for 10 seconds before sampling Note: 2 idle work queue threads omitted

opRun + 1371 (CoreFoundation + 466939) [0x7fff90efcffb] 1-17
                             17  __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 212 (CoreFoundation + 469812) [0x7fff90efdb34] 1-17
                               17  mach_msg_trap + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 70878) [0x7fff946284de] 1-17
                                *17  ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 (kernel + 1173408) [0xffffff800031e7a0] 1-17
 Thread 0x859        DispatchQueue 2     17 samples (1-17)   priority 46
 <thread QoS user interactive, IO policy important>
 17  _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52 (libdispatch.dylib + 19050) [0x7fff932dca6a] 1-17
   17  kevent64 + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 94770) [0x7fff9462e232] 1-17
    *17  ??? (kernel + 5992224) [0xffffff80007b6f20] 1-17
 Thread 0x8c8        17 samples (1-17)   priority 46
 <thread QoS user interactive, IO policy important>
 17  thread_start + 13 (libsystem_pthread.dylib + 5149) [0x7fff93c8241d] 1-17
   17  _pthread_start + 176 (libsystem_pthread.dylib + 12773) [0x7fff93c841e5] 1-17
     17  _pthread_body + 131 (libsystem_pthread.dylib + 12904) [0x7fff93c84268] 1-17
       17  _NSEventThread + 137 (AppKit + 1601435) [0x7fff89475f9b] 1-17
         17  CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296 (CoreFoundation + 464984) [0x7fff90efc858] 1-17
           17  __CFRunLoopRun + 1371 (CoreFoundation + 466939) [0x7fff90efcffb] 1-17
             17  __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 212 (CoreFoundation + 469812) [0x7fff90efdb34] 1-17
               17  mach_msg_trap + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 70878) [0x7fff946284de] 1-17
                *17  ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 (kernel + 1173408) [0xffffff800031e7a0] 1-17
I'm a OS X developer and yesterday upgraded to OS X 10.10.2 and now Firefox will not start. I get the menu bar and then the progress spinner just spins. The force quit report is rather long, but I use Firefox as my default browser and miss it rather quickly. Thank you! John Here is a copy of the force quit report: Date/Time: 2014-11-22 08:25:53 -0700 OS Version: 10.10.2 (Build 14C68k) Architecture: x86_64h Report Version: 21 Command: Firefox Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox Version: 33.1.1 (3314.11.13) Parent: launchd [1] PID: 1003 Event: hang Duration: 1.60s (process was unresponsive for 10 seconds before sampling) Steps: 17 (100ms sampling interval) Hardware model: MacBookAir6,1 Active cpus: 4 Fan speed: 1198 rpm -------------------------------------------------- Timeline format: stacks are sorted chronologically Use -i and -heavy to re-report with count sorting -------------------------------------------------- Heaviest stack for the main thread of the target process: 17 ??? (<FDCF73E5-44F9-31E4-8000-1E3A613AB670> + 1139319) [0x102116277] 17 __psynch_cvwait + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 90422) [0x7fff9462d136] *17 psynch_cvcontinue + 0 (pthread + 26908) [0xffffff7f80f4491c] Process: firefox (Firefox) [1003] Path: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox Architecture: x86_64 Parent: launchd [1] UID: 501 Task size: 41789 pages (+2) CPU Time: 0.005s Note: Unresponsive for 10 seconds before sampling Note: 2 idle work queue threads omitted opRun + 1371 (CoreFoundation + 466939) [0x7fff90efcffb] 1-17 17 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 212 (CoreFoundation + 469812) [0x7fff90efdb34] 1-17 17 mach_msg_trap + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 70878) [0x7fff946284de] 1-17 *17 ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 (kernel + 1173408) [0xffffff800031e7a0] 1-17 Thread 0x859 DispatchQueue 2 17 samples (1-17) priority 46 <thread QoS user interactive, IO policy important> 17 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52 (libdispatch.dylib + 19050) [0x7fff932dca6a] 1-17 17 kevent64 + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 94770) [0x7fff9462e232] 1-17 *17 ??? (kernel + 5992224) [0xffffff80007b6f20] 1-17 Thread 0x8c8 17 samples (1-17) priority 46 <thread QoS user interactive, IO policy important> 17 thread_start + 13 (libsystem_pthread.dylib + 5149) [0x7fff93c8241d] 1-17 17 _pthread_start + 176 (libsystem_pthread.dylib + 12773) [0x7fff93c841e5] 1-17 17 _pthread_body + 131 (libsystem_pthread.dylib + 12904) [0x7fff93c84268] 1-17 17 _NSEventThread + 137 (AppKit + 1601435) [0x7fff89475f9b] 1-17 17 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296 (CoreFoundation + 464984) [0x7fff90efc858] 1-17 17 __CFRunLoopRun + 1371 (CoreFoundation + 466939) [0x7fff90efcffb] 1-17 17 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 212 (CoreFoundation + 469812) [0x7fff90efdb34] 1-17 17 mach_msg_trap + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 70878) [0x7fff946284de] 1-17 *17 ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 (kernel + 1173408) [0xffffff800031e7a0] 1-17

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Well there are certainly a number of signatures that are being seen in the current versions of others top crashers in last 7 days for Mac OS like Corefoundation, libdispatch.dylib etc. But I would not know where to start from this angle andI have not seen any crash reports for 10.10.2 yet.

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Please post back with the results, however to set the right expectations, this is looking like a bug will need to be filled. Bugzilla.mozilla.org will be where that happens :-)