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firefox-3.0 package

Firefox wants Restart on every new Site, very annoying!

Bug #299171 reported by Lhazfarg on 2008-11-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #270303: MASTER - firefox (intrepid/jaunty): "your browser has been updated and needs to be restarted". Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

After updating to 3.04, FF wants to start new, after starting new, this procedure goes on and on and on...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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Lhazfarg (lhazfarg) wrote on 2008-11-17:

Bildschirmfoto.png Edit (127.0 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (813 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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yellow (yellowshark) wrote on 2008-12-20:

Confirmation. Same Problem. Forum threads on it:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/firefox-will-neugestartet-werden/#post-1673345 (german with reference to dollowing link)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=969921 (english with IMHO bad work arrounds)

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-12-24: Re: [Bug 299171] Re: Firefox wants Restart on every new Site, very annoying!

Lhazfarg wrote:
> ** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19737853/Bildschirmfoto.png
>
> ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19737854/Dependencies.txt
>
> ** Attachment added: "ExtensionSummary.txt"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19737855/ExtensionSummary.txt
>
> ** Attachment added: "profiles.ini.txt"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19737856/profiles.ini.txt
>
>
please check the file permissions of the localstore.rdf in your profile
folder is that file owned by you? when was it last touched?