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Tue, 01 Jun 2004

Tue Jun 1 22:05:04 2004 Upgrading to Firefox
I ran Firefox from the office and got the dreaded "no XBL bindings" message.

I installed it again at home and got the same thing.

So I decided to look it up. 5 seconds on Google produced the following info: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/ sez:

First, if you are running an old version of Firebird or Phoenix, visit
the Extensions panel in Tools, Options and disable all of your
extensions. If you cannot disable extensions, you must create a new
profile before upgrading to Firefox 0.8. If you do not do this, your
browser may not work, and you may receive messages like "Cannot create
XBL Binding for Browser" or "Cannot create Browser Instance". You must
now look for newer versions of your extensions that are described
explicitly as being compatible with Firefox 0.8. 

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/fix-extensions.html offers a detailed how-to for fixing this if you've screwed it up. Interesting how this will play out in our shared environment.

The following sequence apparently worked for me at home:

1. Disable all extensions in Firebird
2. Uninstall Firefox
3. Re-install Firefox and start it.
4. Re-install and activate extensions
5. Restart Firefox

Tue Jun 1 12:19:00 2004 Making deleted desktop items stay deleted
Colin suggests the following procedure, which seems to work:

• Move the desktop item to the Recycle bin
• From 'My Computer', navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\\Desktop and delete the item from there.