Re: 13.2-RELEASE and firefox

On 13.04.23 18:42, Greg Balfour wrote:

> I installed 13.2-RELEASE in a VMware VM and can't get firefox to
> start.  Everything (xorg, vmware, firefox, etc.) is installed with
> packages.  There are error messages about "Can't find profile
> directory." but Firefox does create the usual config directories
> with appropriate permissions.  Interestingly, if I install
> www/tor-browser that does work.
>
> $ ls ~/.mozilla/firefox/
> ./                              installs.ini
> ../                             irt0vtne.default/
> bka4pgd6.default-release/       profiles.ini
>
> $ firefox
> console.error: ({})
> JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.jsm, line 58: Error:
> Can't find profile directory.
> JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.jsm, line 58: Error:
> Can't find profile directory.
> console.error: (new TypeError("Cc[aContract] is undefined",
> "resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.sys.mjs", 137))
> JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.sys.mjs, line 137:
> TypeError: Cc[aContract] is undefined
> [ERROR glean_core] Error setting metrics feature config:
> Json(Error("EOF while parsing a value", line: 1, column: 0))
> JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.jsm, line 58: Error:
> Can't find profile directory.
> console.error: (new SecurityError("Navigator.requestMIDIAccess: Access
> not allowed", (void 0), 3012))
> JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/TelemetrySession.sys.mjs,
> line 747: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE: Component returned failure code:
> 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)
> [nsITelemetry.msSinceProcessStartExcludingSuspend]

the error messages about a missing profile directory seem normal,
they also occur when everything is fine (that is, I get them
with a working firefox on FreeBSD which manages to persist
passwords and tabs across restarts).

In fact, the only errors I don't recognize are:

> console.error: ({})
> console.error: (new TypeError("Cc[aContract] is undefined",
> "resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.sys.mjs", 137))
> JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.sys.mjs, line 137:
> TypeError: Cc[aContract] is undefined