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WebRTC sharing indicator displays an XML parsing error

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Víctor (Bit-Man) Rodríguez
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Víctor (Bit-Man) Rodríguez
Algorithm Junkie, Data Structures lover, Open Source enthusiast

Surely your lovely Firefox browser started throwing an annoying yellow window like this one

XML Parsing Error: no root element found
Location: chrome://browser/content/webrtcLegacyIndicator.xhtml
Line Number: 1, Column 1:

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This is a very ooold Firefox bug that returns from the bottom of the sea from time to time. Som people reports that the error is does not appear when privacy.webrtc.legacyGlobalIndicator is set to false in about:config

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Others report that going to about:support, click the “Clear startup cache…” button on the top right, and then restart Firefox solved the issues for them

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In case you want to help to fix it would be helpful if you could go to about:telemetry, search for ysod and share what you’re seeing there (screenshot, or copy-paste the table data, if it’s not empty) and drop a note into the bug

Until next time!