Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] HTML Validator firefox extension

[Marc G. <mg...@sk...>]

Hi Paul,

This is due to the XPCOM registry (or what ever name it is called )
When you install a XPCOM library (= it is a DLL with some custom 
function), the DLL has some functions that are declared in another file 
( a XPT ) file. During the installation time, the XPT file is registered 
in the XPCOM registry so that Mozilla know where is the tidy dll, what 
are the functions/parameter and so on.

When copying the profile, you did not copy the XPCOM registry (that is 
meanless, you can not do it anyway). So that when you started Firefox 
the library was not found. Or more exactly, the library definition in 
the XPCOM registry was not found. And you got this error message.

There is nothing to do about this for me. Maybe you can try to log a bug 
in Firefox to explain it.

Marc

Paul Hickman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I have been using your 0.83 beta version of the extension for some 
> time now without problems, and I just got a new laptop so copied my 
> Firefox profile folder across from the old one and got an error page 
> from the extension that it could no longer find the C library. 
>  Re-installing the extension resolved this but I was wondering if 
> there was a reason why you didn't keep the C library in the extension 
> folder inside the users profile. By storing it elsewhere it means that 
> anyone who has a roaming profile under Windows will have to reinstall 
> the extension on each new machine they use.
>
>  
>
> Paul.
>
>
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