Weird error in Ffx3

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:15 -0700, stan wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
> >       Very often (more often than not), when I c&p a URL into
> > Firefox 3 (under F9), I get an error which might as well be in
> > hieroglyphics a;
> > 
> > ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file!
> > Stack Trace:
> > 0:ENSURE_WARN(false,_installLocation: engine has no
> > file!,2147500037)
> > 1:()
> > 2:()
> > 3:()
> > 4:epsGetAttr([object Object],alias)
> > 5:()
> > 6:SRCH_SVC_getEngineByAlias(http://www.roanoke.com)
> > 7:getEngineByAlias(http://www.roanoke.com)
> > 8:getShortcutOrURI(http://www.roanoke.com,[object Object])
> > 9:canonizeUrl([object KeyboardEvent],[object Object])
> > 10:handleURLBarCommand([object KeyboardEvent])
> > 11:()
> > 12:([object KeyboardEvent])
> > 13:anonymous(textentered,[object KeyboardEvent])
> > 14:fireEvent(textentered,[object KeyboardEvent])
> > 15:onTextEntered()
> > 16:handleEnter(false)
> > 17:_onKeyPress([object KeyboardEvent])
> > 18:onxblkeypress([object KeyboardEvent])
> > 
> >       Sometimes I then also get the site; sometimes not.
> > Anybody know what goes on here? I don't even see what to google
> > for ...
> > 
> >       Btw, it has only recently started to pull this stunt.
> > 
> I had the same problem.  When the geckolib was fixed 
> and Firefox updated, I had Firefox running.  This 
> interfered with proper update in some way.  I tried 
> going to runlevel 3 and then restarting X but it didn't 
> fix it.  So I rebooted and everything is now fine.
> You might just try logging out as a user before 
> rebooting. But it seems to be more fundamental than that.
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I just closed all running copies of Firefox and restarted and that
seemed to clear things up for me.

Craig