Ubuntu
firefox package

chrome failure on many downloads and menus

Bug #172656 reported by mhofer
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Alexander Sack

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

This follows today's upgrade (think it's 2.0.0.10/ubuntu 7.10)

Upon selecting a various non-html links and on several menus (notably the tools-->add-ons) I get an xml error such as:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/unknownContentType.xul
Line Number 1, Column 2:t(mimeSource, valueProperty, mimeLiteral, true);

The location varies, and the line number and error description varies, but...

also, I PRESUME it's ff 2.0.0.10, as the version information is not showing in the text window in the help-->about dialog.

Here's a link that's failing:

http://www.ladyada.net/media/usbtinyisp/exampleusbdriver.tar.gz and in fact this one generated the text quoted above.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 28 16:06:42 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: firefox 2.0.0.10+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1.7.10.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux slytherin.sandbridgetech.com 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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mhofer (mhofer) wrote :
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

please try to start firefox in safe-mode. Open a terminal and run:

firefox -safe-mode

does this help?

Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → asac
status: New → Incomplete
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

no reply from reporter on last question. Closing accordingly.

 - Alexander

Changed in firefox:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Cory Dodt (corydodt) wrote :

I experienced this issue as well. Specific incidences: "View Source" displayed not-well-formed error for a while; later, it stopped displaying that error but had red "missing glyph" characters stuck at the end of the source window; "Download file with unknown mime-type" dialog (which asks you what to do with the file you're downloading, I think) also displayed the error.

I'm still not sure what caused the corruption, but I found a workaround:

sudo apt-get remove firefox
sudo apt-get install firefox firefox-gnome-support ubufox

This fixed all the errors.

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