This has happened to me several times.

I have been googling, and clicked a link. A weird error appears in a pop-up box with some sort of XML error from the hosting site (normally Red Hat).

Then KM will not respond to any link. Acts as if DNS has died (or similar). No matter what you do, it just hangs there with the mouse busy. You can 'stop' the page, but next link (or fav/bookmark) produces the same.

The onl way out is to exit KM, then Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up Task Manager and kill the sleeping KM process.

Then all works OK again

For those of you brave (or foolish ) enough, here's one I prepared earlier;

Click on the 3rd link in the list from the top:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=convert+root+ext3&btnG=Google+Search

Nick

OK, now I actually 'bookmarked' the link, I can see what it is.

The error message is to do with pippki.jar file in chrome dir.

Here is the file with the 'fault line' highlighted:


============================================================

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
- The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public
- License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file
- except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
- the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
-
- Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS
- IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or
- implied. See the License for the specific language governing
- rights and limitations under the License.
-
-
- Contributor(s):
- Javier Delgadillo <javi@netscape.com>
- Bob Lord <lord@netscape.com>
- HÃ¥kan Waara <hwaara@chello.se>
-->

<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?>

<!DOCTYPE dialog [
<!ENTITY % newserverDTD SYSTEM "chrome://pippki/locale/newserver.dtd" >
%newserverDTD;
<!ENTITY % pippkiDTD SYSTEM "chrome://pippki/locale/pippki.dtd" >
%pippkiDTD;
]>

<dialog id="ssl_warning" title="&newserver.title;"
xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul";
onload="onLoad();"
buttons="accept,cancel,help"
ondialogaccept="return doOK();"
ondialogcancel="return doCancel();"
ondialoghelp="return doHelpButton();">

<script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://global/content/strres.js"/>
<script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://pippki/content/pippki.js"/>
<script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://pippki/content/newserver.js"/>
<script type="application/x-javascript" src="chrome://help/content/contextHelp.js"/>

<stringbundle id="newserver_bundle" src="chrome://pippki/locale/newserver.properties"/>

<vbox flex="1">
<hbox valign="top" align="center">

<image class="alert-icon" style="margin: 5px"/>
<vbox flex="1" valign="middle">

<description id="intro"/>
<separator class="thin"/>
<description>&newserver.reasons;</description>
<description>&newserver.reason1;</description>
<description>&newserver.reason2;</description>
<description id="reason3"/>
<separator class="thin"/>
<description>&newserver.notify;</description>
<separator/>
<description id="question"/>
<separator class="thin"/>
<vbox flex="1" align="start">
<button id="examineCert-button" label="&newserver.examine;"
oncommand="viewCert();"/>
</vbox>
<separator class="thin"/>
<vbox>
<radiogroup id="whatnow" flex="1">
<radio label="&newserver.remember;" id="remember"/>
<radio label="&newserver.session;" id="session" selected="true"/>
<radio label="&newserver.refuse;" id="refuse"/>
</radiogroup>
</vbox>
</vbox>
</hbox>
</vbox>

</dialog>

===========================================================

It reports an 'illegal entity' on that line, Char 1 = '<'

???

Nick

I had no problem with it, just checked the "accept for now" (or whatever it said, the middle radio box) and the okay button, and there I was.
(shrug)

Nick,

Did you make any changes to any of your JAR files?

Yes... I thought about that later -> the fix to get java recognised using the 1.3a moz files.

I am investigated this morning.

Nick

Yep, that was it. I put back the original 'pipnss.jar, pippki.jar and embed.jar', deleted chrome.rdf, and on restarting that link works as should with a dialogue box.

I also checked and I still have 'java installed & java enabled'.

So, Moneysage will have to investigate why he also changed those files to do the 'java enabled' fix.

Nick

Here's the relevant thread re the *.jar files.

http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=1&i=7001&t=6901

Nick