[SOLVED][UPDATE] Firefox 4 strange dialogs

[Jim Byrnes]

NoOp wrote:
> 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'.
>


I was grasping at straws.  I went looking again ( I wish I could google 
better) and found the answer. Open about:config and set 
prompts.tab_modal.enabled to false. This gets you the old style dialog.

NoOp: Did you have this changed already? Your screen shot sure shows the 
old style;

Alex:  You were right.  That is the new look in Firefox 4.

Regards, Jim