Closed Bug 479291 Opened 16 years ago Closed 15 years ago

tried to get into site and Firefox pops up with code...only site it does this on.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 453288

People

(Reporter: vulcanism22, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: common-issue+)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 tried to get into a site and this automatically pops up when i try to click on a page: Firefox can't find the file at jar:file:///C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.properties2.webim0120.webim.myspace.comwimstate=c. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. logged into myspace 2. go to inbox or any other page and error comes up 3. hit TRY AGAIN button, nothing happens. Actual Results: I sign in to myspace and when i try to open inbox, the above pops up...tells me to try again, but no action. I got on another computer and got in, both run firefox, but i DO NOT have CHROME so i dont know why it is stating chrome in that code. Expected Results: I would just like to know how to get into this page and why yesterday this started to happen.
chrome:// is an internal protocol which is used by Gecko several years. It doesn't have a connection to the google browser with the same name or google used the name because Gecko is using it (as joke ?) The chrome:// Protocol loads the internal Firefox User Interface, you can for example enter chrome://browser/content/browser.xul in Firefox URL bar to get a browser window inside of the browser : Note: clicking the link should not work, you can only copy+paste it into firefox URL bar. Do you get the same issue in the Firefox safemode ? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+Support+Home+Page
This is coming up often as a result of third party software surreptitiously installing a variant of the MyWebSearch toolbar, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions#Ask.com_Toolbar Uninstall it from Tools -> Add-ons, "Extensions" dialog, or follow instructions at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_add-ons#Uninstalling_an_extension_manually Resolving as WORKSFORME but if you don't have the Ask extension THOR, feel free to mention whether this still happens after creating and switching to a new profile - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
This bug has more dupes than the earlier bug 453288 but should we dupe this one to that bug or vice versa?
Blocklisting perhaps?
Keywords: common-issue+
Resolution: WORKSFORME → DUPLICATE
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