Firefox and Thunderbird crash on F7.

[Erik P. Olsen]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:19 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> I am in the process of building F7 in order to move from FC5 to F7.
>>
>> Both TB and FF crash in a similar fashion, so I believe the problems are 
>> related. I'll start with the FF crash.
>>
>> To see if it would help to update F7, I added all the latest fixes this morning. 
>> The problem is still there. It crashes consistently on display of many pages. 
>> The one I test is Edit -> Preferences. It crashes immediately without going into 
>> the dialog. The error console shows:
>>
>> [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005
>> (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIPrefBranch.getComplexValue]" nsresult
>> "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame ::
>> file:///usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js ::
>> anonymous :: line 500" data: no]
>> file:///usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js  Line: 482
>>
>> What can this error be? Unfortunately I have absolutely no understanding of this 
>> error message.
>>
>> I do hope someone can help me out of this situation. Thanks in advance.
>> -- 
>> Erik.
>>
> Just for clarity, did you do a fresh install of f7 or did you try to
> update from f5 to f7? The later is bound to give problems.

Fresh install.

-- 
Erik.