262670 - Critical update cannot be installed as user. Installling as root deletes all settings.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 236593

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Walter Neumann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox reports a critical update. When I try to install it it fails. 
If I reload Firefox as root (using "sudo firefox") I can install the update, but
all bookmarks and other settings are gone when I restart Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.give command "sudo firefox"
2.run the requested critical update
3.exit firefox.

Actual Results:  
On reloading Firefox all bookmarks and settings have been deleted. 
It seems step 2 above is not necessary to have this happen (but step 1 seems to
be necessary to install the critical update).

Expected Results:  
Bookmarks and settings still there (I lost months worth of stored bookmarks,
passwords, etc.)

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Possibly related: bug 262670, bug 230032 comment 14.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262653 ***

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236593 ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Ah, good catch.