FIREFOX doesn't allow to get url from adress bar

[Xaralampos Tsimpouris]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Every time i try to contact a page, every page, firefox shows me an alert box with a lot of stuff.
For example if i try to get to "maill.google.com"

I get. Every time i try with a different site, I get different text with just an OK button.
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/)
7:getEngineByAlias(http://mail.google.com/)
8:getShortcutOrURI(http://mail.google.com/,[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])

The problem is i can't go to any URL i want. The way i found is to open a new tab, go to home page - google, and through searching in google to find the url I want.

This started after i installed the latest updates and restarted firefox.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
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 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Xaralampos Tsimpouris (kifinas-uop)]

After some times of restarting it decided to work just fine. Maybe an open window of firefox had stuck and the restart wasn't truly a restart.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

yes, firefox doesnt work after upgrade until restarted ... which is why we try to display the restart required notification inside the browser windows/tabs. Did you see them and those didnt work for you?

[Xaralampos Tsimpouris (kifinas-uop)]

The restart notification did showed up and I closed firefox to reopen
it. However, I had an open window/instane of firefox in a different
desktop and that's why the "restart" wasn't truly a restart, and it
had passed some time after I has submitted the "bug" until i figurred
it out!

Anyway, maybe it would be a good idea, maybe, to be something like "a
flag" for firefox-upgrade-to-be-installed and show an alert box if the
upgrade can't be installed at every new firefox-window that opens,
because "probably another firefox instance is already running".

Thanks for your immediate concern and support.
Xaralampos Tsimpouris from Greece

2009/2/11 Alexander Sack <email address hidden>:
> yes, firefox doesnt work after upgrade until restarted ... which is why
> we try to display the restart required notification inside the browser
> windows/tabs. Did you see them and those didnt work for you?
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> FIREFOX doesn't allow to get url from adress bar
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327961
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