Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Helped Patrick resolve a problem with our wireless network by installing a firmware update for our Airport Extreme, but I think the problem could have been resolved without the update—the device probably just needed to be restarted. To work. Birthday celebration for Eric D—everyone brought something tasty to share. I brought chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting and multicolor non-pareils. Staff meeting. Supp app web pages work, supp app PDF work, supp app workshop web pages edits with Scott. Helped JCB with a question about data recovery and undeletion. To home. Dinner at home with Patrick: grilled salmon, thai style lime rice pilaf, dinner roll, Smart Balance Light, steamed asparagus. Web work for Drew and Corinna. Followup on the Music mirror and the problem of the Time Machine drive not mounting. Recently Chris Pederick's Web Developer Toolbar disappeared for me in Firefox 3.0.11 in Windows Vista. I tried seemingly everything to fix it with no success: dirty reinstalled the extension; uninstalled the extension, restarted Firefox, and reinstalled the extension; disabled all other extensions and restarted Firefox; restarted Firefox in Safe Mode; manually deleted the {c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12} folder and attempted to reinstall the extension manually; clicked Restore Default Set in View... > Toolbars > Customize.... This problem took me longer than usual—I am usually not stumped by computer problems. I finally thought it was solved when I implemented the solution described under "Corrupt extension files" on the page called "Unable to install themes or extensions - Firefox" at mozillazine. Afterwards, in examining extensions.log, I found this:
2009-06-13 08:49:24 - safeInstallOperation: failed to back up file: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\zjsdz6ih.default\extensions\{0538E3E3-7E9B-4d49-8831-A227C80A7AD3}\chrome\forecastfox.jar to: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\zjsdz6ih.default\extensions\{0538E3E3-7E9B-4d49-8831-A227C80A7AD3}-trash\chrome ... rolling back file moves and aborting installation.
2009-06-13 08:49:24 - ExtensionManager:_finishOperations - failure, catching exception - lineno: 1944 - file: undefined - [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.moveTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsExtensionManager.js :: moveFile :: line 1944" data: no]
2009-06-30 22:32:21 - safeInstallOperation: failed to clean up item location after its contents were properly backed up. Failed to clean up: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\zjsdz6ih.default\extensions\{c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12} ... rolling back file moves and aborting installation."
But after removing the extensions.* files and getting the Web Developer Toolbar to reappear once, it would disappear again on subsequent browser restarts—very frustrating. I completely uninstalled all extensions and then uninstalled Firefox choosing to not keep my personal info. Today Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, so I ended up reinstalling with that version instead of 3.0.11 which I had before. extensions.rdf keeps getting corrupted even with Firefox 3.5—I don't know what's causing it, but quitting Firefox and deleting extensions.rdf and restarting Firefox seems to consistently work around the problem. Strawberry and nonfat milk smoothie. Stretches. Weight training: wrist curl, superslow lateral raise, superslow front raise. Installed Firefox 3.5 for OS X. Installed VMware Fusion 2.0.5 update. Late meal: hot nonfat milk, lowfat raspberry yogurt, chunky soup. Sage isn't compatible with Firefox 3.5, so I installed Christopher Finke's Feed Sidebar and OPML Support but couldn't figure out how to import my Sage OPML file.