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Prism firefox add-on prevents firefox from starting

Bug #550489 reported by Tim Fisken on 2010-03-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #518422: [MASTER] Firefox does not start with certain addons installed. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	prism (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: prism

With firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6 and prism 1.0b3+svn20100210r62050-0ubuntu1 installed, firefox fails to start up. It doesn't report any error message, running "firefox" from the command line simply does nothing. This does not occur the very first time firefox is run after prism is installed; this first time, it runs correctly and reports that the the Prism add-on has been installed. However, subsequent attempts to run firefox simply do nothing. Removing the prism add-on, either by uninstalling the prism package or by disabling the prism add-on in firefox, corrects this problem.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-03-28:

The trouble is with Firefox and not Prism.
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 518422, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.