211881 - mozilla install overwrites netscape 7 bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Stefan Brunthaler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

mozilla 1.4 installation procedure overwrites existing netscape bookmarks - and
this is really bad for me.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have netscape 7 on your computer with many elaborated and important bookmarks
2. Install mozilla 1.4
3. kaboom, all gone.

Actual Results:  
My bookmarks where gone.

Expected Results:  
Ask me what to do or make a backup copy of bookmarks.html

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

can't really reproduce, Mozilla uses the same profile as Netscape btw and
installing Mozilla 1.4 shouldn't kill the bookmarks.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Netscape schouldn`t use the Mozilla profile folders but that`s a netscape bug
and upgrading Mozila doesn`t delete the bookmarks (wfm in all upgrades from M16)