I made another attempt to install FireBug today and was successful. There was another post with the same "NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED" message and here was the solution.
What worked for me: 1. Run Firefox elevated (as an administrator). Go back to Get Add-ons and install Firebug. 2. DO NOT click Restart. Instead, exit Firefox normally. 3. Run Firefox elevated again. This is when the installation really happens. Since Firefox is running as an administrator, it now has permission to update the files it needs to. 4. Confirm Firebug is installed, then exit Firefox and run it normally (not elevated). Thanks -Noah On Oct 8, 12:04 pm, noahpke <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, > > Your note about the extension files has helped shed some light. But > still no FB. > > Here is what I did. > > Closed FF. > Deleted extensions.* from my profile directory. > Opened FF > Went to getfirebug.com and clicked install > Went through install process. > Clicked restart FF after install > FF restarted > No FB. > > Here is the extension log file. > > 2009-10-08 12:56:03 - safeInstallOperation: install operation (caller- > supplied callback) failed, rolling back file moves and aborting > installation. > 2009-10-08 12:56:03 - safeInstallOperation: failed to remove the > folder we failed to install an item into: C:\Users\Noah\AppData\Roaming > \Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\9e5ekmtl.default\extensions > \[email protected] -- There is not much to suggest > here... maybe restart and try again? > 2009-10-08 12:56:03 - ExtensionManager:_finishOperations - failure, > catching exception - lineno: 565 - file: undefined - [Exception... > "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) > [nsIFile.remove]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" > location: "JS frame :: > file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js > :: removeDirRecursive :: line 565" data: no] > 2009-10-08 12:56:06 - safeInstallOperation: install operation (caller- > supplied callback) failed, rolling back file moves and aborting > installation. > 2009-10-08 12:56:06 - ExtensionManager:_finishOperations - failure, > catching exception - lineno: 1658 - file: undefined - [Exception... > "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 > (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsIZipReader.extract]" nsresult: > "0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)" location: "JS frame :: > file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js > :: extractExtensionFiles :: line 1658" data: no] > 2009-10-08 12:56:07 - ExtensionManager:_finishOperations - failure, > catching exception - lineno: 4987 - file: > file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js > - TypeError: entries[i] is null > > I have three other extensions installed. Google TB, Selenium, .Net > Framework Assistant. I had Alexa Sparky installed. After I deleted > extensions.* the first time it said it was not compatible with FF > 3.5.3 (although it was working previously). > > And for Vista users the profile directory is here: > > C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ > [profileid].default\ > > Thanks > -Noah -- 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.
