Bug 114448

Summary:	Firefox 1.5 -bin chrome registration (known issue)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	email_deleted_GqKU
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description email_deleted_GqKU 2005-12-04 07:00:29 UTC

(Some people talked about this bug in
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114041 (comments 6 and 8), but here is
the separate bug report.)

Error message box when starting Firefox 1.5:

"Firefox could not install this item because of a failure in Chrome
Registration.  Please contact the author about this problem.".

After the first run (ie. clean profile), the error message only appear from time
to time, when starting Firefox.

See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311480

From the Firefox 1.5 known issues
(http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html#issues):

"If Firefox 1.5 is installed on a multi-user system in a location which is not
writable by users, Firefox must be run once by a privileged user. If this is not
desirable, an empty file must be created in the following directory:
<install-directory>/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest".

Creating the empty file
/opt/firefox/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest does indeed resolve
the problem.

The problem appears in www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5 (and certainly in
www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5 too).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5
2. Start Firefox with a clean profile

Actual Results:  
Error message box with the message: "Firefox could not install this item because
of a failure in Chrome Registration.  Please contact the author about this
problem.". The box appears twice in a row, when starting Firefox with a clean
profile, and then appears once in a while, when starting Firefox.

Expected Results:  
No error message box.

Comment 1 email_deleted_GqKU 2005-12-04 12:17:02 UTC

As the person who edited the summary to add "-bin" meant, the problem does not
appear with www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5 (the file already is here).

Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2005-12-18 12:16:16 UTC

fixed in -r1 thanks for feedback.