293345 - "Error launching browser window:no XBL binding for browser" upon start

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dariusz Siedlecki]

User-Agent:       Opera/8.0 (Windows 98; U; pl)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050507 Firefox/1.0+

Whenever I start Firefox, an XUL error appears stating "Error launching browser 
window:no XBL binding for browser". I click "OK", and the main Firefox window 
appears, but... There are no bookmarks, and I can't open any page. Whenever I 
enter an URL into the address bar and hit "Go", it just stays there.

The problem appeared on the 2005-05-05-07-trunk build. It worked in 2005-05-04-
16-trunk and earlier, but...

I deleted my profile and installed the newest trunk. It didn't work again, so I 
uninstalled Firefox and installed 2005-05-04-16. It also didn't work, and I got 
the same error. Could it be related with the profile?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. Hit "Ok" on the error
3. Try to load any webpage

Actual Results:  
First an error appeared, then Firefox won't load any website.

Expected Results:  
No error should've appeared, Firefox should load every website which URL would 
be provided in the navigation bar.

* Deleting the profile didn't work
* Reinstalling of Firefox didn't work
* Any about: URL doesn't work
* Safe Mode doesn't work

Comment 1

[Gyles Harvey]

I've just been having fun with this error too. It seems to be extension related:

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/fix-extensions.html

Uninstalling the following 2 extensions seems to have helped:

- google safe browsing
- bugmenot

Do you have either of those?

Comment 2

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

1) This is almost certainly an extension or profile problem.
2) This was reported against a fairly old build of Firefox.
3) Following the steps at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_(Firefox should fix this.

Closing as INVALID. If it's still a problem in a current version after all of the steps at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_(Firefox then please comment or reopen this bug.