Package: mozilla-firefox
Version: 1.0+dfsg.1-6
Severity: important
On upgrading Firefox, I was unable to open a file using either File,
Open or ^O. I got this not-terribly-useful error message:
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul
Line Number 2, Column 14:
"all,dialog=no",url,null,null,line);
______________^
Note that the text of the error message, for no good reason, is
non-selectable and thus non-copyable into a bug report. (Not that it's
a huge strain to retype it, but why add work for the user?)
I got help from the debian-user list and resolved the problem (as far as
I can tell) by deleting the file XUL.mfasl from the default profile
directory.
There's no reason to waste the user's time with these errors. At the
very least, it would (I presume) be easy to have Firefox delete the XML
cache and retry whenever it encounters an error.
Thanks for the wonderful work you do in packaging Firefox for Debian. I
really appreciate it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages mozilla-firefox depends on:
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libidl0 0.8.3-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkrb53 1.3.6-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System printing extension
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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