Bug 235100

Summary:	Firefox 3.0.1 has an empty Applications tab in the preferences
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jean-Noël Rivasseau (RETIRED) <elvanor>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jean-Noël Rivasseau (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-18 11:20:43 UTC

The following error appears on the Error Console when bringing up the Applications tab:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/preferences/applications.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 478"  data: no]

The Applications tab is then completely empty and it's impossible to take any action, probably as a result of the above error.

I tried with a clean profile. Same thing.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Daniel V. 2008-08-18 12:26:54 UTC

Although I don't have any idea what causes this, Firefox 3.1 Alpha has a working Applications tab. Meanwhile you can edit the contents in: ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/mimeTypes.rdf

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2008-08-18 16:30:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 228665 ***