286054 - constantly get message Alert "There was a problem retrieving xml data: forbidden"

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alan Pasell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

I get the following message about every 30 seconds. It reads, Alert,"There was a
problem retrieving xml data: forbidden"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox
2.wait
3.Alert appears regularly

Actual Results:  
I cannot continue until I click the "OK" button. Once that is done I can work
for another 30 seconds or so.

Expected Results:  
I have no idea why I am recieving this message so I don't know what to say. I
don't even know if this is a problem with Firefox or not. It never occured when
I used Mozilla Suite or if I have to use IE (which I don't like to do). 

Thanks for all you do with this browser. It is great.

Comment 1

[Don Wilson]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
> 
> I get the following message about every 30 seconds. It reads, Alert,"There was a
> problem retrieving xml data: forbidden"
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Open Firefox
> 2.wait
> 3.Alert appears regularly
> 
> Actual Results:  
> I cannot continue until I click the "OK" button. Once that is done I can work
> for another 30 seconds or so.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> I have no idea why I am recieving this message so I don't know what to say. I
> don't even know if this is a problem with Firefox or not. It never occured when
> I used Mozilla Suite or if I have to use IE (which I don't like to do). 
> 
> Thanks for all you do with this browser. It is great.

Looks like an errornous bookmarked XML url is unretrievable. Search through your
bookmarks to find a bad XML-linked bookmark and remove it. This should solve
your problem.

Note: Firefox should alert the person of this error in a better way (what url is
being errornous, etc).

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.