PaleMoon fails starting after update to 20.0.1

[LigH1L]

Remembering the last case, I denied updating the german language pack this time, let Pale Moon start in english after the update from 19.0.2 to 20.0.1, and re-installed the german language pack from the website afterwards. Pale Moon ran fine at first...

Today, I get this "JavaScript application" error dialog 3 times:

Can't find febe-strings

TypeError: fs is null

Then the XML error dialog appears:

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XML-Verarbeitungsfehler: Nicht definierte Entität
Adresse: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Zeile Nr. 240, Spalte 5:    <broadcaster id="devtoolsMenuBroadcaster_ChromeDebugger"
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Once again I re-installed the language pack, after temporarily setting the locale to "en"; back to "de-DE", Pale Moon works well so far.

I wonder if this issue was related to the update restart being interrupted by the Adobe Flash updater. At least the solution is now known.

[dark_moon]

FEBE is an addon or?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/febe

Do you try a clean profile?

[slaven]

After updating i got PM's fail with message

Rendering Error:TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null

<broadcaster id="devtoolsMenuBroadcaster_DevToolbox"
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deleting langpack-..@palemoon.org.xpi helped to solve the problem.

[mduchaff]

Hi Slaven

deleting langpack-..@palemoon.org.xpi helped to solve the problem.

Can you be more specific ? Where is that file that you deleted ?
Thanks

[Moonchild]

It would be in your profile folder under "extensions"
e.g. c:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Moonchild Productions\Pale Moon\Profiles\[xxxxxx}.default\extensions\

[mduchaff]

Thanks Moonchild.
I renamed the file as xxx.old. in order to ease the restoration of the file.
I launched Palemoon again and : I still get the same error message

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Erreur d'analyse XML : entité non définie
Emplacement : chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Numéro de ligne 240, Colonne 5 :    <broadcaster id="devtoolsMenuBroadcaster_ChromeDebugger"

which is the French version of the message LigH1L got.
But I cannot apply his solution : no way to start Pale Moon !

and my OLD file was removed
I will appreciate any idea. Should I go back to a previous version ?

[Moonchild]

You are obviously still having an old language pack in your profile - old, incompatible language packs will prevent the browser from starting.

You can at all times start in safe mode by holding the SHIFT key depressed when starting Pale Moon. After doing that, go to the Add-ons manager, find your language packs that are installed, and remove all of them. Restart Pale Moon normally and install a current, up-to-date language pack for the browser.

Side note: incompatible language packs should never be activated or installed - normally they can't be but some synchronisation and/or backup software may inadvertently do this. Make sure you exclude language packs from synchronisation or backup to prevent these issues.