I'll stick with my advice: create a new Firefox profile. This much more certain to clarify the issues. Messing around with your profile in various ways can be fun of course, but if your goal is to get a working solution, the new profile path is the way to go. jjb
On Jul 18, 2:26 pm, thaddeusmt <[email protected]> wrote: > (Vista Home, AVG 8.5, Fireox 3.5, Firebug 1.4) > > I was getting the same "safeInstallOperation" error in my > extensions.log other people have been getting. I tried to disable the > AVG firefox extension, AVG itself, and my Carbonite backup program, > and it still won't work. I also tried deleting my extension.ini/rdf/ > etc files, and creating a new Firefox profile too. Then I found this > thread:http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1179985&start=0 > > Simply copying the .xpi files into [email protected] > didn't work either! Firefox (3.5) recognized Firebug finally when I > did this, but insisted it needed to "restart" to activate it. Needless > to say it still said that after multiple restarts. > > I noticed an empty folder in the root Program Files/Mozilla Firefox > folder: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}. That's the same target > application/id thing I saw when poking around in the install.rdf file > from the .xpi. So I copied all of the files from the .xpi into there > as well. > > And voila! The Firebug 1.4 runs again. > > On Jul 17, 2:13 am, mukuru <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am using Firefox 3.5 and I am getting the error below when I try to > > install Firebug 1.4: > > > Firefox could not install the file > > athttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/1843/addon-... > > because: Unexpected installation error Review the Error Console log > > for more details. -203 > > > Please help me > > > Mukuru --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
