311961 - After installing update 1.0.7.0 Firefox will not open - instead error message reads "The program must close to allow a previous installation attempt to complete. Please restart"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283680

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[livingstoneplace]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915

WhenI opened Firefox I received a notification that there was an update
available. I clicked on it, saved and opened the update file.  At the end of the
install the dialogue said to restart. When I did and attempted to open Firefox,
the following error message comes up  "The program must close to allow a
previous installation attempt to complete. Please restart"

I have restarted and the same error message came up.

Thinking that the copy of the update file I saved might be defective, I deleted
it and attempted to install directly from your website.  After a new install,
the same error message came up after attempting to open Firefox.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download Firefox Setup 1.0.7
2.Activate the Setup
3.Launch Firefox at the finish of the install


Actual Results:  
The error message detailed above comes up.

Expected Results:  
It should have opened Firefox.

I am concerned that I will lose my bookmarks when this is fixed.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

The solution is to delete the xpicleanup.dat file in your Firefox program dir.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 293056 ***

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283680 ***