287776 - filepicker doesn't work (XML error message)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Victor Nawothnig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050325 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050325 Firefox/1.0.2

If I click on a 'filepicker' button (i.e. a 'browse'-button),
a Window appear, with an error message on it

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I went to any Websites with a Filepicker Button on it (i.e. 
http://theimagehosting.com/)
2. I clicked on the 'Browse'-Button

Actual Results:  
A window opened, with the following Message on it:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul
Line Number 1, Column 16:

le-internal-box" flex"="1";>
---------------^

Expected Results:  
A window should be opened, in that you can choose a file (i.e. to upload it) and
"save" it.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[Victor Nawothnig]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050325 Firefox/1.0.2
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050325 Firefox/1.0.2
> 
> If I click on a 'filepicker' button (i.e. a 'browse'-button),
> a Window appear, with an error message on it
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. I went to any Websites with a Filepicker Button on it (i.e. 
> http://theimagehosting.com/)
> 2. I clicked on the 'Browse'-Button
> 
> Actual Results:  
> A window opened, with the following Message on it:
> 
> XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
> Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul
> Line Number 1, Column 16:
> 
> le-internal-box" flex"="1";>
> ---------------^
> 
> Expected Results:  
> A window should be opened, in that you can choose a file (i.e. to upload it) and
> "save" it.

Solved this problem by creating a new user profile.
After that this problem was NOT reproducible.