"installLocation has no properties" error in nsExtensionManager.js during install/update of extensions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Fix Released
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High
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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High
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Mozilla Bugs | ||
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
thunderbird (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
I'm experiencing an "unknown error -203" during installation or update of extensions in firefox 1.99+2.
The error seems to prevent installing new extensions, while despite the error updating existing extensions seems to work (at least they don't show up after a restart as updateable anymore).
The error console shows:
"""
installLocation has no properties
file://
"""
This will be fixed for Firefox 3, according to comments upstream.
WORKAROUND/FIX from comment:
Delete (or better, rename/backup) the file extensions.rdf (from the profile folder). Firefox will recreate it when it is next started.
This solved the problem for me. No need to create a new profile.
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Unconfirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | nobody → mozillateam |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Needs Info |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Needs Info → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | mozillateam → mozilla-bugs |
description: | updated |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
Changed in thunderbird (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.5 (like Gecko) (Kubuntu)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 BonEcho/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)
I'm experiencing an "unknown error -203" during installation or update of extensions in firefox 1.99+2. 0rc2+dfsg- 0ubuntu1. //usr/lib/ firefox/ components/ nsExtensionMana ger.js line: 3849.
The error seems to prevent installing new extensions, while despite the error updating existing extensions seems to work (at least they don't show up after a restart as updateable anymore).
The error console shows:
"""
installLocation has no properties
file:/
"""
This is also present in the RC2 release.
It's basically the same issue as bug 352847, but I could not re-open nor leave a comment there.
Also, I'm not sure if the simple patch fixes the root of the problem.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install or update an existing extension
Actual Results: //usr/lib/ firefox/ components/ nsExtensionMana ger.js line: 3849.
installLocation has no properties
file:/
in error console