Beagle 'firefox extension' broke

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 20:45 -0400, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After updating to Firefox 1.5.0.2 on FC5, the Beagle extension appears
> to be broke.  I did my update using Pup while Firefox was running,
> because I was curious as to whether Pup would kill Firefox or not, and
> if problems would ensue or not, and since a problem did occur I'm
> wondering if this is the reason.  Anyways, the problem is that under
> any user account when I start Firefox 1.5.0.2 I get a dialog box
> entitled 'Malformed File' that says:
> 
> '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.'
> 
> This is a one-time issue for all user accounts.  The consequence of
> that dialog box is that the Beagle extension is no longer listed in
> the Extensions list.  It's gone.
> 
> So seems to be a problem with the update.  Is it Beagle's fault,
> Fedora's fault or Mozilla's fault? :)
> 
> Benjy
> 
> PS: I was under the impression that if I updated Firefox while Firefox
> was running in userspace, that a kill signal would be sent to Firefox
> but this never happened.  Only when I exited Firefox and restarted it
> did v.1.5.0.2 load.
> 

Benjy,

I'm getting the same problem. (Using KDE here)
Any solution?

Gilboa