Dave Howorth wrote:
I wrote:
I updated my system with YOU yesterday and one of the things that was update was Thunderbird. Now when I try to use Edit/Find/Search Messages, it says:
XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location: chrome://messenger/content/SearchDialog.xul Line Number 1, Column 1:
urce = RDF.GetResource(uri); ^
Aargh! Has anybody seen this? Does anybody know how to fix it?
For the archive:
I asked on Mozilla's Thunderbird support forum and was referred to:
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Thunderbird>
The problem seems to have gone away after I removed an extension (External Editor), so for now I'm treating it as fixed.
<aside>I find it difficult to believe that a minor version upgrade 1.5.0.6 to 1.5.0.7 could introduce a change in the system that could cause an extension to malfunction, and I also find it difficult to believe that an extension could affect the core application functionality - Search and Help - in this way , unless the program is unbelievably badly structured. So I suspect there's something else going on that may eventually surface.</aside>
I wouldn't call a security upgrade as a "minor version upgrade". Re the extension(s). They are apparently written to recognise a particular version of either TB or FF and may not work if the version changes. There is an extension called Nightly Tester Tools which, when activated, makes extensions/themes compatible with the newer versions of TB/FF. When installing a theme/extension the info about it will show with which version of TB/FF they are designed to work. Cheers. -- "Every burned book enlightens the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson