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Failed to load XPCOM component in Ubuntu 8.04 hardy

Asked by Nathy

When I try to open a link in a tab in firefox with Ctrl+click it doesn't do anything although it work open it throw the menu. This is what the Error console of the firefox throw:

Failed to load XPCOM component: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/components/libpyloader.so
Failed to load XPCOM component: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.8/components/pyabout.py
Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'width'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.elpais.com.uy/09/04/01/Styles/ep5_estilos.css
Line: 431
Security Error: Content at http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/ may not load data from http://www.elpais.com.uy/.
Security Error: Content at http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/ may not load data from http://www.elpais.com.uy/.

I installed kate on Ubuntu 8.04, and I also installed konsole to be able to see it in kate. And I think this could be what generate the problem so I try to uninstall konsole doing a complete remove but there still are some files with konsole in its description and I couldn't remove them even with root privileges. Doing that didn't solve the problem and I do not know what to do next or even if the error was realy caused by konsole or something else.

Thanks in advance

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

First make sure you have a working Internet connection.

# Then open a terminal and enter the following commands:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

# Add the following two lines to the end of the sources.list file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

# Then run the following commands in a Terminal:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
sudo aptitude remove firefox
sudo aptitude install firefox
sudo aptitude install -f

Regards,

Mark

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Nathy (nathybolso) said : 		#2

Thanks for your reply. I add the lines to the sources.list file, but when I update it, it told me the following:

W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EF4186FE247510BE
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

I follow the rest of the prodcedure anyway but it didn't solve my problem

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

Hi,

Try the following:

1. Close all open Firefox windows

2. Rename your ~/.mozilla folder to ~/.mozilla20090402

where ~ refers to your home directory (use the mv command to do the rename)

If they also exist, you should also rename the .firefox or .mozilla-firefox directory in your home directory.

Sorry that I cannot be more precise, but I am currently working on a Windows PC at work.

3. Restart Firefox and see if issue still occurs

Regards,

Mark

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Nathy (nathybolso) said : 		#4

No it didn't solve it. It start a fresh new without my preferences but when I press ctrl+mouse left button it does nothing.

regards
nathy

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#5

Hi,

As a workaround, can you open the link in a Firefox tab by clicking on the link with your middle mousebutton?

Regards,

Mark

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Nathy (nathybolso) said : 		#6

Yes!!! I didn't knew that shortcut exists!
It works for me just fine this way so it doesn't matter any more the other shortcut.

Thanks a lot

regards,
nathy