Firefox update, malformed problem

[Lauri]

> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:53:26 +0100, Motor wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:14:04 -0700, Stephen Mirowski wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone else get the startup error from the new Firefox from updates:
>>>
>>> "Malformed File
>>>
>>> Firefox could not install this item because "install.rdf" (provided by
>>> the item) is not well-formed or
>>> does not exist.  Please contact the author about this problem."
>>>
>>> ?
>> Same here. Not only that, but it seems to have blasted all my
>> extensions. They appear to be installed, but don't do anything. Great.
> 
> Here's some more info: that error seems to have caused that profile to
> screw up. It won't install/uninstall any extensions... it just starts
> firefox with no extensions running. I tried uninstalling them all and
> restarting, but firefox doesn't do the removal when it restarts. If I open
> the extensions dialog, I can see them all sitting there still saying "X
> will be removed when Firefox is restarted".
> 
> If I create another profile, it appears to work ok... but then I'll lose
> the bookmarks, stored forms etc etc. Whatever that update did, it seems to
> have caused the firefox extension processing during start up to break
> badly... and leaves the profile basically screwed. Sigh... it looks like
> I'm going to lose all my personal firefox data again.
> 

I got the same problem, but I probably found a solution. After
installing or upgrading an extension everything seems to be working
again.

Lauri