User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 I wrote an XPCOM component that starts up by registering with the nsICategoryManager and observing the "app-startup" topic. If I try to get a nsIPasswordManager object during the startup phase, Firefox crashes. No "exception" info is printed to the dump screen. Other general XPCOM components (nsIPrefBranch) can be created with no problem. I sought help at Mozillazine (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=311327). Quoting Asqueella's words: "It crashes here, because mSignonFile is null. I guess that's because the profile isn't yet loaded." ["here" hyperlinks to http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/toolkit/components/passwordmgr/base/nsPasswordManager.cpp#290] I don't know if this is a bug or just me doing things in the wrong order. But it was hinted that "[a] common principle is that JS code shouldn't be able to crash core code." (Mozillazine) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See testcase

If firefox's password manager crashes, then that is not likely to be due to XPCOM. changing product to firefox. >"[a] common principle is that JS code shouldn't be able to crash >core code." (Mozillazine) out of curiousity, what URL is that from?

> out of curiousity, what URL is that from? nevermind, found it

The patch in bug 294075 would fix this crash. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 294075 ***