[MASTER] Updates while firefox is running cause various problems until restart

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

Did you restart Firefox after updating?

Yes, i did.
At this moment, this bug doesn't affects me, upgrade and full reboot of my computer helped to get it work.
I assume, it were happened, becouse other firefox copy has been started in background that downloaded files (this behavior is achieved with extra addition to firefox), but i'm not sure about it.
Anyway, i think i t will be better to avoid such thing's during updates of system. It really bad when updates are run in backgorud, and such errors halt your work.

If any more information is nessary, feel free to ask me for it.

This is a dupe of Bug #299393. I'd mark it as such, but apparently I don't have adequate privileges to do that, given that several other bugs are marked as duplicates of this one.

Added link to upstream bug.

To summarize the upstream ticket, the problem is a side effect of the version upgrade process. Restarting FF will work around the problem. I'd infer from that, that the problem lies in the packaging, and not with the upstream project.

One of the duplicate tickets here contains a developer comment stating that this isn't an easy problem to resolve.

Although the current upgrade process does include a user notification that a FF restart is required, maybe a stop-gap solution would be to make that notification more forceful and intrusive, prompting the user to restart FF immediately before continuing to use it.

I asked them to mark
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427028
as a duplicate of the bug we have tracking.

Update title to better fit it and hope to catch all this bug to this one.

Changed due to upstream dulicates

I too have observed this problem several times. For me, the problems occurs at every firefox upgrade.
It looks like a packaging problem.

When firefox is upgraded with apt-get, a firefox restart is required. But *between* the upgrade and the (firefox) restart, firefox behaves abnormally. It is not always practical to restart firefox immediately, e.g. the user might be writing an email or filling in a form. Errors include: assertion failed when a URL is entered in the URL bar, right click not giving context-sensitive menus (e.g. save image when over an image). Expected behaviour: Firefox should continue to work normally.

For further details see my bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/365434

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.

Further to the above report, running killall firefox and restarting did not resolve either issue, but rebooting the machine appears to have done so.

help - about now shows 'version version 3.0.13 Mozilla firefox for Ubuntu canonical - 1.0' and the user agent string is 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.13'

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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 <email address hidden> 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
>

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Sorry but Firefox-3.0 has reached EOL and will not get this fix.

they decided to release 3.0.18 in Feb

Closing as 3.0 under a supported Ubuntu release will be updated to latest Firefox from now on.

We no longer use versioned releases

I'm wondering if this bug title should be more accurate. It says ....various problems until restart.
So far from what i see its more of the assertion errors.
I asked a user on bug #231679 if this was the same as his bug he said no because he wasn't getting errors. Maybe we should retitle this to include the assertion error

Added a task for Thunderbird, too. The symptoms for Thunderbird are somewhat different; perhaps it should be a separate bug. Also xulrunner (and anything using xulrunner) is probably affected, too.

@bug-control: Please set this bug back to triaged. Thanks.

@celerino: This bug isn't fixed. Please don't change the bug status unless it's really fixed upstream. Thanks.

Same in Quantum series.