Ubuntu
firefox package

Firefox misbehaves if upgraded while running

Bug #23273 reported by Paul Sladen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Firefox is web browser, used as the default in Ubuntu.

The view-source feature to view the HTML content of a page is currently broken.
 The following actions:

  View->View Source
  Right Click->View Source

Bring up a small error box containing:

  XML Parsing Error: syntax error
  Location: chrome://global/content/viewSource.xul
  Line Number 1, Column 3:

    if (doReload)
  --^

The only option is then to close dialogue by pressing the [X] in the top right
hand corner.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

This often happens when you upgrade Firefox while it is running. Close firefox
and reopen it and the problem should correct itself.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Two earlier rounds of closing all Firefox windows didn't cure this. A third one
has. *boggle*.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote :

If have seen this happening on diifferent places in chrome:/// after the last
update. A few restarts of firefox-bin cured it. Not sure what's going on here,
but definitely caused by upgrading-while-running.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

*** Bug 23719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote :

Firefox should use update-notifier to notify the user that firefox should be
restarted.

Ian Jackson (ijackson)
Changed in firefox:
assignee: ijackson → nobody
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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

I think you'll see that the fix for this (a notification message) is being addressed in bug 36739 - maybe this one can be closed now?

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