268870 - Help -> About shows XML parsing error window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Don Seiler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

Just upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 1.0.  Had been on RC2.  Went to Help -> About
to confirm the version change and got an error window with this text:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
Line Number 45, Column 3:

Then it shows some weird symbol with PK and then HF and TF split.  I'll attach
screenshot shortly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Help -> About Mozilla Firefox
2.  Voila

Actual Results:  
Get XML Parsing Error

Expected Results:  
Present an about window showing version information

Comment 1

[Don Seiler]

Attachment: screenshot of XML error window

Comment 2

[Eric Allen]

Emerged from source on gentoo gives same error

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041112 Firefox/1.0

Comment 3

[Don Seiler]

FWIW: I, too, am on Gentoo linux using a source build.

Comment 4

[Frederic Bezies]

Bugday 23 nov 2004

WFM with firefox 1.0

Reporter, please upgrade to firefox 1.0 and tell us if is still crash

Thanks.

Note : I built my firefox 1.0 under fedora 3.

What is your .mozconfig ?

Comment 5

[Don Seiler]

Now on Gentoo net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 and About works fine.  I don't see
anything in the Gentoo package ChangeLog addressing this issue but it seems to
be fixed now.

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

see comment 5