1210401 - "Home page selection" window does not appear when importing data from Chrome

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Vasilica Tamas, QA [:vtamas]]

Reproducible on: Firefox 44.0a1, Firefox 43.0a2, Firefox 42 Beta 2 across all platforms

Prerequisites: Google Chrome is installed and closed, and has:
- custom homepage
- browsing history
- saved bookmarks
- saved passwords

STR
1.Run Firefox for the first time (or simply remove the profiles folder: On Windows - %appdata%\Mozilla; On Mac - Library\Application Support\Firefox; On Linux - /home/user/.mozilla)
2.Select Chrome from the "Import Settings and Data" window 
3.Press "Next"

ER
"Home Page Selection" window should appear.

AR
“Home Page Selection” windows is not displayed and obviously the Chrome home page is not imported in Firefox.


Additional notes:
- This issue is reproducible on Firefox 44.0a1 (2015-09-30), Firefox 43.0a2 (2015-09-30), Firefox 42 Beta 2 on Windows 7 64-bit, Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit and Mac OS X 10.10.4.
- Importing from Chrome, it is possible to migrate a Chrome profile, but the home page is not imported neither in this case.

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Is there anything in the Browser Console afterwards?

(In reply to Vasilica Mihasca, QA [:vasilica_mihasca] from comment #0)
> Reproducible on: Firefox 44.0a1, Firefox 43.0a2, Firefox 42 Beta 2 across
> all platforms
…
> - This issue is reproducible on Firefox 44.0a1 (2015-09-30), Firefox 43.0a2
> (2015-09-30), Firefox 42 Beta 2 on Windows 7 64-bit, Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit and
> Mac OS X 10.10.4.

Note that it's intentional that the home page import doesn't happen in unofficial builds (e.g. Nightly & Aurora). See the QA notes at [1]. It should work in official beta builds with the Firefox logo.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox_migrators#Differences_between_official_and_unofficial_builds

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

I did my own testing and the problem is that we're looking for a file that doesn't exist and silently returning[1].

Looking for: /Users/matthew/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Preferences
Should be:   /Users/matthew/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Profile 6/Preferences (where "Profile 6" is the profile folder)

Perhaps Chrome moved the Preferences file into the profile or this was always broken… Either way we need to fix bug 718189 first as the homepage differs by profile.

[1] https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/migration/ChromeProfileMigrator.js?rev=1d76e6286c02#171

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Bug 1434167 made this invalid