359078 - Uncaught Exception Reported in Error Console As Soon As Firefox is Started

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Edwin Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)

As soon as i start Firefox, before loading any URL or page, i notice the following uncaught exception reported in the error console:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIStringBundle.GetStringFromName]"  nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: anonymous :: line 3930"  data: no]

This is reproducible everytime.

If i open a new Firefox window, a second exact same exception is reported. (Not if i open a new tab though.)

i do not have any extensions installed, not even DOM inspector.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. Go to Tools -> Error Console


Actual Results:  
The uncaught exception:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIStringBundle.GetStringFromName]"  nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: anonymous :: line 3930"  data: no]

is reported in the Error Console


Expected Results:  
The uncaught exception:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIStringBundle.GetStringFromName]"  nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: anonymous :: line 3930"  data: no]

is reported in the Error Console

Comment 1

[Edwin Lee]

Sorry, the "Expected Results" should be:

No exception is shown in the Error Console.

Comment 2

[Edwin Lee]

Just managed to identify the cause of this "uncaught exception".

If the "Home Page" field (under Preferences -> Main -> Startup) is left empty, this exception will show up when Firefox starts, even if the "When Firefox starts" setting is set to "Show a blank page". Put a URL there, or even "about:blank", and the exception doesn't show up.

i think this is a bug, because if "When Firefox starts" is set to "Show a blank page", it should not matter what "Home Page" is set to.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

WFM on Debian with
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061106 Minefield/3.0a1

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Closing as incomplete - no feedback