After updating Firefox, errors are encountered when trying to navigate to any page
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. Install updates, including Firefox updates
3. Attempt to navigate to any page
Expected result:
Webpage opens
Actual result:
Error window appears with the following text:
ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file!
Stack Trace:
0:ENSURE_
1:()
2:()
3:()
4:epsGetAttr(
5:()
6:SRCH_
7:getEngineByAlias(http://
8:getShortcutOrURI(http://
9:canonizeUrl(
10:handleURLBar
11:anonymous(
12:fireEvent(
13:onTextEntered()
14:handleEnter(
15:onPopupClick
16:onxblmouseup
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Confirming since I've seen this bug too. I think it has to do with the updates possibly moving symlinks and libraries around (note that firefox.sh is located in /usr/lib/ firefox- 3.0.3/firefox. sh, a location which changes during updates).