firefox fails to start with JavaScript error

[Bob Willcox]

I discovered my problem. Several years ago I pointed the firefox profile to a
directory in the /var filesystem so that I could run it from several systems
in my network at once w/o problems (each system had its own set of profiles).
So this was a local configuration/setup issue since my new system didn't have
the requisite directory setup yet...woops!  :)

Sorry for the noise.

Bob

On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 10:04:23AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
> This is on a new system/install with firefox-66.0.5,1. When I try t run
> firefox it fails with this error message:
> 
> JavaScript error: jar:file:///usr/local/lib/firefox/omni.ja!/components/XULStore.js
> 
> The system does have the omni.ja file installed:
> 
> root at darth:6 /root> ls -l /usr/local/lib/firefox/
> total 79827
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel        419 May 12 09:19 application.ini
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel          7 May 12 09:42 browser
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel          3 May 12 09:42 chrome
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel          0 May 12 09:32 chrome.manifest
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel          3 May 12 09:42 defaults
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel         55 May 12 09:32 dependentlibs.list
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     255376 May 12 09:29 firefox
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     255376 May 12 09:29 firefox-bin
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel          3 May 12 09:42 gmp-clearkey
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel          3 May 12 09:42 gtk2
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      68296 May 12 09:29 liblgpllibs.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    2536896 May 12 09:29 libmozavcodec.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     312616 May 12 09:29 libmozavutil.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      17680 May 12 09:27 libmozgtk.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      23784 May 12 09:27 libmozwayland.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  144021976 May 12 09:32 libxul.so
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   16728168 May 12 09:32 omni.ja
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     266656 May 12 09:29 pingsender
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel         48 May 12 09:32 platform.ini
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     245976 May 12 09:32 plugin-container
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel          0 May 12 09:32 removed-files
> 
> Not being a JavaScript person, I have no idea where to go from here in trying
> to diagnose what's wrong.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
> -- 
> Bob Willcox    | "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it...
> bob at immure.com | I can resist everything but temptation."
> Austin, TX     |     - Oscar Wilde
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Bob Willcox    | "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it...
bob at immure.com | I can resist everything but temptation."
Austin, TX     |     - Oscar Wilde