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June 15, 2004

Wacky Firefox 0.9 Restarting Bug

The wacky infinite restart loop bug that some people are seeing in Firefox 0.9 is a consequence of having used a nightly build between roughtly 5/21 and 6/8. A bug in those builds (245311) caused the Extension Manager to write incorrect data to the datasource and when the version number changed the mismatch checker freaked out. I've checked in a change to ignore the error that's being thrown to the aviary branch for this and Thunderbird 0.7 will not ship with this problem.

For users of Firefox 0.9 who have used a nightly build from that time period who encounter the restart problem, delete the extensions folder in your profile, and in the application directory, then start again. You'll have to reinstall any extensions you had installed.

For those of you who think this is too complicated a solution I have a simple answer: Nightly builds are for users who are ready to accept such consequences ;-)

Posted by ben at June 15, 2004 9:34 PM

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