Beagle 'firefox extension' broke

Benjy Grogan benjy.grogan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 00:40:25 UTC 2006


The problem is now in bugzilla:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189444>

No solution yet.

Benjy

On 4/19/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 20:45 -0400, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After updating to Firefox 1.5.0.2 on FC5, the Beagle extension appears
> > to be broke.  I did my update using Pup while Firefox was running,
> > because I was curious as to whether Pup would kill Firefox or not, and
> > if problems would ensue or not, and since a problem did occur I'm
> > wondering if this is the reason.  Anyways, the problem is that under
> > any user account when I start Firefox 1.5.0.2 I get a dialog box
> > entitled 'Malformed File' that says:
> >
> > 'Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided
> > by the item) is not well-formed or does not exist.  Please contact the
> > author about this problem.'
> >
> > This is a one-time issue for all user accounts.  The consequence of
> > that dialog box is that the Beagle extension is no longer listed in
> > the Extensions list.  It's gone.
> >
> > So seems to be a problem with the update.  Is it Beagle's fault,
> > Fedora's fault or Mozilla's fault? :)
> >
> > Benjy
> >
> > PS: I was under the impression that if I updated Firefox while Firefox
> > was running in userspace, that a kill signal would be sent to Firefox
> > but this never happened.  Only when I exited Firefox and restarted it
> > did v.1.5.0.2 load.
> >
>
> Benjy,
>
> I'm getting the same problem. (Using KDE here)
> Any solution?
>
> Gilboa
>
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