[UPDATE] Firefox 4 strange dialogs

[NoOp]

On 05/06/2011 09:39 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Jim Byrnes wrote:
...
> Still no notification about this but I have been playing with it some 
> more.  I have installed Firefox 4 on the following systems:
> 
> Ubuntu 10.04
> Ubuntu 10.10 in Vbox on 10.04
> Ubuntu 11.04 in Vbox on 10.04 system default version
> Ubuntu 11.04 on a laptop system default version
> XP native install
> 
> all of them display as shown at http://puu.sh/1Qd3.
> 
> If I look at the error console right after startup I see a variation of 
> this message on all systems: Could not read chrome manifest file 
> '/home/jfb/firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/chrome.manifest' 
> 
> 
> There is no chrome manifest file at that location.
> 
> Maybe a clue?  It would be interesting if someone that sees a correct 
> dialog and someone who does not could indicate if they are getting the 
> same error message.

That error message isn't causing your problem - see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586610

Even on an PPA installed 4.0.1 it shows:
Could not read chrome manifest file
'/usr/lib/firefox-4.0.1/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/chrome.manifest'.