[tor-bugs] #13893 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Torbrowser crashes on start when using MS EMET 5.x

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#13893: Torbrowser crashes on start when using MS EMET 5.x
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 Reporter:  Diapolo                              |          Owner:  gk
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  reopened
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Major                                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-security, tbb-crash, tbb-        |  Actual Points:
  usability-stoppoint-app, fuck-mingw-gcc,       |
  GeorgKoppen201609, TorBrowserTeam201610,       |
  ff52-esr                                       |
Parent ID:  #12820                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:83 bugzilla]:
 > Newer GCC is a good way to reveal bugs, not to fix, and it's not needed
 if nobody is going to fix them. So nothing has changed, it didn't work
 anyways.
 > It wasn't discovered by testers as
 > > the application freezes very early in the process and does not
 completely start
 > because of ticket:18935#comment:24

 I think Tor Browser started for all of them (see comment:73, comment:75
 and I tested it on my machines as well) and it worked with GCC 6 while it
 did not without it.

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