Firefox lost history, on open get same error...

[CPUNeck]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIStringBundle.formatStringFromName]

Last thing to happen was I was viewing an HTML page that I deleted prior to closing the Firefox window, then the app hung. Now after multiple reboots I still get the same error window. But I can use Firefox. Thanks

cpuneck@cpuneck-laptop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
cpuneck@cpuneck-laptop:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 1 10:24:10 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Ludovic Claude (ludovicc)]

I had a similar issue: all my firefox bookmarks disapeared, and I had a popup with this error message at startup:
Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIStringBundle.formatStringFromName]

Fortunately, I could restore my bookmarks from a backup of my profile (backups are great!), and to get rid of this error message, I removed the 'Forecastfox extended' extension. The problem disapeared... It looks like a recent update of that extension caused lots of damage...

Hope this helps,
Ludovic

[Peter Pein (petsie)]

This can happen if firefox has been started as root.
sudo chown -R myname:mygroup ~/.mozilla
fixed this behaviour at my place.

[CPUNeck (caspercpu)]

Seems this happened because I opened a Terminal as SU while firefox was open. Don't know, reset the permissions on my home folder and everything is good again. Thx

-C

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Closing this bug, since it seems to be resolved. Feel free to reset status if needed.