378334 - bookmarks parsing error

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[anthony penman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

bookmarks tab blank with error message "xml parsing error:no element found location:chrome://browser/content/bookmarks line number1,column 1:" this problem has happened on several occasions since installing version 2.0 had to re-install a couple of times in the past is there a way of correcting this without re-installing it again

Reproducible: Sometimes

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Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

do you use extensions/themes - can you try if you see this error also in safe mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode) ?

Comment 2

[anthony penman]

as you requested i started computer in safe mode and the error was corrected so i restarted and disabled my current redshift v2 theme and used Firefox default theme     the error was still present i checked what extension were in use"ad block,talk back,ie tab and yahoo tool bar i uninstall ed the yahoo tool bar restarted Firefox and the error had been corrected.the problem must be with the yahoo tool bar extension i normally don't use this software on my computer it was installed by another user thanks for putting me on the right track

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

invalid, this is a yahoo toolbar problem per Comment #2