470696 - Firefox hangs when importing bookmarks from IE

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 YFF3 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 YFF3 Firefox/3.0.5

Tried importing IE bookmarks after I had installed Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.From the top menu, select...
2.Bookmarks,
3.Organize Bookmarks,
4.Import and Backup,
5.Import HTML,
6.Microsoft Internet Explorer
Actual Results:  
Firefox hangs and need to bring up task manager to kill process.

Expected Results:  
To my surprise, when I reloaded Firefox after the crash, the IE bookmarks had been imported :)

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Do you have a lot of bookmarks?  Did all of them get imported?

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

no answer, resolving incomplete, if possible we need to look at your IE exported bookmarks.html, so feel free to reopen if you can provide that (also by mail)