Bob, Try an update to Firefox 3.5 (aka Shiretoko). It has more features and much faster. I have been running it without problems on Ubuntu 9.04.
Mark On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Bob Harvey <bobhar...@europe.com> wrote: > This happened to me after accepting today's update, and restarting > firefox has not helped. > > What is more both help-about and edit-preferences produce an empty > window of size zero. I get a tiny border of zero width and small > height, and when stretched to a reasonable size it has no contents. > > ** Attachment added: "screenshot of assertion" > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30076964/Screenshot-Assertion%20Failed.png > > -- > [MASTER] Update to Firefox causes errors > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338785 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > > Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: New > Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > After updating firefox to 3.0.7, i'd got assertion failed on startup, and > later if i try to access any website > Assertion is showed in GUI window. > Error text: > ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file! > Stack Trace: > 0:ENSURE_WARN(false,_installLocation: engine has no file!,2147500037) > 1:() > 2:() > 3:() > 4:epsGetAttr([object Object],hidden) > 5:() > 6:() > 7:currentEngine() > 8:get_currentEngine() > 9:updateDisplay() > 10:init() > 11:([object XULElement],6) > > > > LANG=C apt-cache policy firefox-3.0 > firefox-3.0: > Installed: 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 > Candidate: 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 > Version table: > 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 0 > 500 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages > *** 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 0 > 500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0 > 500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages > > Note: At this moment i were downgraded firefox version, installed were: > 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 > -- Mark Ginsberg Phone 858-822-6432 Fax 858-822-6458 -- [MASTER] Update to Firefox causes errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338785 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
