{"id":6631,"date":"2004-08-11T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T15:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/11\/firefox-glitch-well-no-looks-like-pebcak.html"},"modified":"2004-08-11T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T15:37:45","slug":"firefox_glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/firefox_glitch.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox glitch? Well, no, looks like PEBCAK"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I need to add a new category — maybe “MyComputer”)<\/p>\n

This morning, Firefox wouldn’t start up. Ran just fine last night. Everything closed down without a sweat. But this morning, nope. Process starts (shows up in Task Manager), but the browser never actually opens.<\/p>\n

It will open in Safe Mode — which disables all extensions. Bleah. <\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So, did anything change with extensions yesterday? Hmmm.<\/p>\n

Check out the Mozilla Firebird directory. Most recent file is install.log. <\/em>Yesterday.<\/p>\n

Hmmmm. Downloaded an updated Tagzilla <\/a>version (0.056). And I did it last night, which would have been prior to this most recent shutdown.<\/p>\n

Aha. Cherchez la extension.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tried downloading an earlier version of the product, but no joy. So I deleted that extension .. and Firefox starts up with nary a problem.<\/p>\n

Okay … so I wonder what gives. I can reinstall it, but …<\/p>\n

… hey, where’s the JSLib extension? That’s flagged by Tagzilla as an absolute, positive must, “otherwise, the program won’t appear to start once you install TagZilla.”<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

So did JSLib get uninstalled somehow by the Tagzilla install? That’s worrisome.<\/p>\n

Reinstall JSLib<\/a>. Restart Firefox. All’s well.<\/p>\n

Reinstall Tagzilla. And …<\/p>\n

… all’s well. Go back in, reconfigure it, all’s looking well, and …<\/p>\n

… wait a second. Tagzilla’s a Thunderbird extension (for e-mail), not a Firefox extension. No, wait, it does work in Firefox (for line grabs, and web mail). But … <\/p>\n

… ah. Installed the new version last night, but in Thunderbird, not in Firefox. Possible conflict?<\/p>\n

Carefully install updated Tagzilla into Thunderbird. Restart Thunderbird. All’s right in that world.<\/p>\n

Close Firefox. Open it. All’s well there, too.<\/p>\n

So, conclusion: I installed Tagzilla into Firefox (unnecessary for me) instead of Thunderbird. This is a place where the kinda-unified extension management between the systems becomes a bit problematic, since it isn’t the first time I’ve done that (it’s very easy to, in fact). Since I didn’t have JSlib installed in Firefox (I do now), it failed (just as the Tagzilla page warns). <\/p>\n

Problem solved. I guess. Be more careful next time. Definite PEBCAK <\/a>error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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