greasemonkey causes ff 3.6 to not load, without errors

[Kees Cook]

Binary package hint: firefox

If I attempt to install greasemonkey, firefox3.6 will refuse to load (exit code 1, with nothing on stderr) the time after the next restart.

Steps to reproduce for me:
1) start firefox
2) install greasemonkey
3) quit firefox
4) start firefox (greasemonkey is fine)
5) quit firefox
6) start firefox, but it fails with exit code 1

To recover I must:
1) start firefox with -safe-mode
2) uninstall greasemonkey
3) quit firefox
4) start firefox

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Chris, mind looking into this issue? It's been plaguing me as well since the sprint last month. I think it's affected seb128 too.

asac suggested this might be a known issue upstream so perhaps there is already a fix for the problem somewhere?

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I have no trouble with Greasemonkey in a clean profile. I would suggest checking your scripts to see if one of them is causing the issue:
http://wiki.greasespot.net/FAQ#I_installed_a_script_that_crashes_Firefox._How_can_I_get_rid_of_it.3F

Please let me know if this helps. This seems to be affecting people across multiple distros and someone did open a bug upstream which I'm linking.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

For me, even with gm_scripts totally gone (and starting with GM totally deleted from extensions/), I get the same behavior: GM will run once only, then takes out firefox totally on any future attempts to start ff.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Here is a clean profile I created named "TestingGMFailure". If this is unpacked in .mozilla/firefox, you should be able to start it with "MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -ProfileManager" and select it.

It may need "/disk/home/kees" adjusted in the extensions.ini, xpti.dat, and compreg.dat files; I'm not sure. This profile behaves the same for me: works only once with GM.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

I just tried this with ubufox uninstalled -- no change. I tried comparing the firefox profile directories before the okay startup against the not okay start up, and restored every single file except extensions.ini. As soon as gm is in that ini, ff will refuse to start.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I have a test user with the same extensions in the extensions.ini file
and it works for me. Your test profile however gives me the no start
issue...

On 03/04/2010 12:48 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> I just tried this with ubufox uninstalled -- no change. I tried
> comparing the firefox profile directories before the okay startup
> against the not okay start up, and restored every single file except
> extensions.ini. As soon as gm is in that ini, ff will refuse to start.
>
>

[Ryan (ubuntu-draziw)]

This looks like a dupe of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/518422 which points to mozilla bugzilla https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533535

This one is marked Importance high, but the older bug with more details and (poor) workaround hasn't been tagged by ubuntu folk.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

I can confirm that the workaround from bug 518422 solves my problem. How strange. :P

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I can recreate this easily with the package in the archive. I've not yet managed to recreate it yet when I download it from a.m.o.

If I install the xpi from the version in our archive to my local profile, then that also works ok. However, I can make it fail if I install the addon in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.xxxx/extensions as a symlink to elsewhere in my home folder.