Comment 24 for bug 338785

Bob,

Try an update to Firefox 3.5 (aka Shiretoko). It has more features and much
faster. I have been running it without problems on Ubuntu 9.04.

Mark

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Bob Harvey <email address hidden> wrote:

> This happened to me after accepting today's update, and restarting
> firefox has not helped.
>
> What is more both help-about and edit-preferences produce an empty
> window of size zero. I get a tiny border of zero width and small
> height, and when stretched to a reasonable size it has no contents.
>
> ** Attachment added: "screenshot of assertion"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30076964/Screenshot-Assertion%20Failed.png
>
> --
> [MASTER] Update to Firefox causes errors
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338785
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: New
> Status in “firefox-3.0” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> After updating firefox to 3.0.7, i'd got assertion failed on startup, and
> later if i try to access any website
> Assertion is showed in GUI window.
> Error text:
> 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],hidden)
> 5:()
> 6:()
> 7:currentEngine()
> 8:get_currentEngine()
> 9:updateDisplay()
> 10:init()
> 11:([object XULElement],6)
>
>
>
> LANG=C apt-cache policy firefox-3.0
> firefox-3.0:
> Installed: 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
> Candidate: 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
> Version table:
> 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 0
> 500 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
> *** 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1 0
> 500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0
> 500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
>
> Note: At this moment i were downgraded firefox version, installed were:
> 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
>

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