after installing firefox-3.0 beta 5 through synaptic, virtually every page comes accompanied with a huge assert window

[Afton]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

sites tried: mail.google.com, reddit.com, http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/about, google.com

I have succesfully navigated to zero pages on my own (although I got here, didn't I!) that didn't invoke the following assert failure:

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],alias)
5:()
6:SRCH_SVC_getEngineByAlias(http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox)
7:getEngineByAlias(http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox)
8:getShortcutOrURI(http://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox,[object Object])
9:canonizeUrl([object KeyboardEvent],[object Object])
10:handleURLBarCommand([object KeyboardEvent])
11:anonymous(textentered,[object KeyboardEvent])
12:fireEvent(textentered,[object KeyboardEvent])
13:onTextEntered()
14:handleEnter(false)
15:onKeyPress([object KeyboardEvent])
16:onxblkeypress([object KeyboardEvent])

This is ubuntu 8.04:
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 11 11:50:27 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:00:01PM -0000, Afton wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> sites tried: mail.google.com, reddit.com, http://en-us.www.mozilla.com
> /en-US/firefox/about, google.com
>
> I have succesfully navigated to zero pages on my own (although I got
> here, didn't I!) that didn't invoke the following assert failure:

please attach the files that you get when running

 find $HOME/.mozilla/firefox -name extensions.\*

to this bug.

 status incomplete

then try to remove those files before starting firefox.

 - Alexander

[Afton (afton-lewis)]

fixed by reboot.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:42:11PM -0000, Afton wrote:
> fixed by reboot.
>

thanks.

 status invalid

 - Alexander

[Aswarp (aswarp2002)]

Got the same error on Hardy Heron. I apparently fixed it with the following procedure:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot
recompile NVIDIA driver for the new kernel
overwrite xorg.conf with previously backedup working version
(the two latter I have to do every time the kernel, or the X server get updated)
reboot

Now i've got 3.01 release of Firefox and everything seems to be working fine, with no annoying messages every time I blink :)