Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140643
Firefox: "Import wizard" hangs.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:55 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: When I click the "Import... " option on the File menu, the import wizard starts up and displays the "Import data and settings from" screen. This screen contains the text "Import Preferences, Bookmarks, History, Passwords and other data from:" and 3 buttons, Back (which can't be clicked), Next and Cancel. When I click next nothing happens. The only other functional element on the screen is the cancel button (which works). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0-2.fc3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start firefox 2. Click the file menu. 3. Choose "Import..." 4. When the import wizard screen comes up, click next. Actual Results: Nothing happens Expected Results: I should be taken to the next screen where I can choose from where to import data.
I'm having the same problem. Makes it a real pain to upgrade, since I don't know any other way to import my saved passwords from Mozilla :(
I've checked this again several months on, and the bug is still here. I'm guessing that this bug *should* be easy to fix (for someone who knows what they're doing). I know it may seem trivial, but this bug can cause people a lot of unnecessary hassle when upgrading their boxes.
I've checked this bug again with the latest errata release (firefox-1.0.2-1.3.1), its still here, and still reproduceable in the same way.
Bug still present in latest release, firefox-1.0.4-1.3.1
In FC4, firefox-1.0.4-4 acted the same way for me (presented nothing to import, and the Next button did nothing), _until_ I copied my former ~/.mozilla directory to my new $HOME. Then a 1-choice "Netscape 6,7 or Mozilla 1.x" entry appeared, with the choice pre-selected, and clicking Next proceeded correctly. I chose to import everything (cookies, passwords, bookmarks), and so far cookies and bookmarks work correctly; I haven't checked passwords yet. (Imported bookmarks have a new top-level ancestor "From Netscape 6/7/Mozilla".) So, perhaps Firefox imports only from "known correct" former locations, which in the case of mozilla is $HOME/.mozilla.
Bug still present in FC5 Test 3, adjusting version field to reflect this.
Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6 are, as we're sure you've noticed, no longer test releases. We're cleaning up the bug database and making sure important bug reports filed against these test releases don't get lost. It would be helpful if you could test this issue with a released version of Fedora or with the latest development / test release. Thanks for your help and for your patience. [This is a bulk message for all open FC5/FC6 test release bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]