272302 - Firefox won't save new homepage.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 277083

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Chrisc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

Dear Mozilla, I've been running Firefox and Thunderbird no probs now for 9 months.
Just reinstalled XP and then Firefox and Thunderbird and whatever I do I can't
get Firefox to save a new homepage. Any ideas please.

yours chrisc

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Tools
2.Options
3.Use current page and OK, then message as below.

Actual Results:  
"failed to save preferences file. Any preference changes will be lost at the end
of this session"

Expected Results:  
Save a new home page and or bookmarks

Worked perfectly before the format and reinstall.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

are permissions on prefs.js in your profile ok?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277083 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change