271641 - Keep getting a pop-up message saying "There was a problem retrieving the xml data: forbidden"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jrjacobs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Hi, I'm receiving a strange pop-up message in Firefox (below). It happens no
matter what website I'm at. I rebooted, restarted firefox, cleared the cache,
checked the security lefvel, and still it keeps occurring. What do you think?

James Jacobs

"There was a problem retrieving the xml data: forbidden"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open browser
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Comment 1

[Renaud Manus]

Same problem on Solaris SPARC (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US;
rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0)

I removed all my "Live Bookmarks" but the issue is still present.

It is an EXTREMELY annoying popup appearing every ~30sec!!

Comment 2

[wassiliv]

after 1 hour having left firefox open, there opened 30 other warning popups
and had to close them one by one, so the staple increases always larger

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 271796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Marco Ranieri]

Perhaps have you installed 'Info RSS' extension? I disinstalled it and now the
alert popup doesn't appear anymore.

Comment 5

[Renaud Manus]

Uninstalling 'Info RSS' extension fixed the alert popup for me also.

Thanks Marco!

Comment 6

[wassiliv]

yes that was in my firefox the problem too , acer laptop , xp , 1.5 GH, 
the damn rss extension was it , deinstalled it, reopen and perfect.
i had 2 rss extensions and deinstalled it both for safe.

Comment 7

[Dennis Slater]

That got it.  Thanks.  Now who is going to pay my mental health professional? 
That ALERT was driving me nuts.

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 271806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Hiawatha Bray]

This just started happening to me, too.  I was going to post a bug complaint
till I saw this.  Thanks so much!

Comment 10

[jrjacobs]

More news. I tried to uninstall InfoRSS, but on restart, firefox wouldn't
uninstall. I had our admin log on and install/uninstall InfoRSS in the admin
instance of FF. Then logged back in and everything was fine. Apparently, there's
an issue with log-ins and permissions in XP. All's well now that InfoRSS has
been uninstalled.

James Jacobs

Comment 11

[OstGote!]

-> bug in extension -> invalid