Bug 61795 - bookmarks written to disk only upon exiting program
Summary: bookmarks written to disk only upon exiting program
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mozilla
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Blizzard
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-24 18:22 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-04-05 06:34:11 UTC
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-03-24 18:22:20 UTC 
With mozilla-0.9.9 in beta3, bookmarks added during a mozilla session are only
permanently added if mozilla is exited cleanly (File -> Quit).  Things like
crashes, or logging out of X (which results in exiting Mozilla via pkill -15)
lose all bookmarks which were added during that session.

Presumably, bookmarks are no longer flushed to disk as they are added.  Instead,
they only get written when the browser exits.  Tailing
~/.mozilla/default/mumble/bookmarks.html confirms this as well.

This has caused me to lose lots of bookmarks, until I figured out what was
happening.  The old behavior of netscape and prior mozilla releases was much
more user-friendly.
Comment 1 Chris Ricker 2002-04-05 06:34:06 UTC 
Still true with beta4
Comment 2 Chris Ricker 2002-05-05 15:47:13 UTC 
7.3 gold fixes this
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