Bug 149147 - installation of search plugin deletes all bookmarks
Summary: installation of search plugin deletes all bookmarks
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-02-19 13:05 UTC by Thilo Pfennig
Modified: 2018-04-11 10:25 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-01-15 14:40:18 UTC
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Description Thilo Pfennig 2005-02-19 13:05:25 UTC
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:
I do often get this as a result, but not every time. If I install a
search engine via http - first I seem to have to start as root - and
than all bookmarks were deleted. I have experienced this in ca. 3 of 5
installations. This is annoying.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox as root
2. go to
http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html#central-engines and
install a new search engine
3. exit firefox
4. start firefox as user

Actual Results:  all bookmarks are deleted

Expected Results:  no deltetion of bookmarks

Additional info:

maybe it is not ok to start firefox as root, but as a normal user i
did not manage to install search engines at all.

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 21:46:05 UTC
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!


Comment 2 Thilo Pfennig 2006-12-04 09:39:47 UTC
I have seen this in FC6 when starting Firefox one time as root (to install a
dictionary).

So still present in FC6
firefox-1.5.0.8-1.fc6


Comment 3 Thilo Pfennig 2007-01-16 17:45:51 UTC
this was the requested info.

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2007-12-10 09:24:54 UTC
Fedora Core 6 is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the
updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora 7, 8, or
Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know
in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we
will have to close this bug as CANTFIX.

Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter.

[This is mass-filed message to all open Fedora Core 6 bugs related to Xorg or
Gecko. If you see any other reason, why this bug shouldn't be closed, please,
comment on it here.]

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2008-01-15 14:40:18 UTC
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to
investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the
information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not
reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the
reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest
update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be
reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional
information.

Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.

{This is mass-closing of all obsolete bugs; if this bug was in your opinion
closed by mistake, please, reopen it with additional information; thanks a lot
and I am sorry for bothering you in such case.}


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