suddenly, firefox is giving me ASSERT errors

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >  when trying to get to numerous sites:
> >
> > ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file!
> > ... etc etc ...
> >
> >  i have to imagine i'm not the only person seeing this.  and i can't
> > even get to bugzilla to see if it's been reported.
> >
> >  thoughts?
>
> Is it possible that you're still running firefox 3.0.0 but upgraded
> to firefox 3.0.1?  It happened to me too, and I suspect some files
> or directories the running firefox needs were shifted behind the
> scenes. Hopefully an exit/restart will fix it for you.

i'm going to guess that that's exactly what happened, thanks.

rday
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