153713 - All Bookmarks lost with move to 1.1alpha

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Michael A. Sypes]

Having just moved from what I believe was Mozilla 1.0 RC3 to 1.1alpha (Build ID
2002061103) all bookmarks have been lost, apparently permanently.
I've noticed this happen in the past, but then it's always been a temporary
glitch. This time it seems permanent. Several restarts of both versions of
Mozilla now show no bookmarks saved at all.
I was able to import an old version from over a year ago, but the majority of my
saved bookmarks now appears lost for good.

Comment 1

[Robert Thörncrantz]

Same for me, using Linux (Mozilla 1.1alpha, #2002061108). It doesn't always eat
my bookmarks, though. It usually happens in connection with another bug (which I
haven't found somewhere, or reported).

After browsing several months of archive at www.doonesbury.com, the browser
stops loading images, and starts outputing "Unable to create socket" on stdout. 

When restarting the browser, my bookmarks (and tool bar) are replaced with
default ones. I'm not certain, but I think that this only happens if I added a
bookmark during the session that later crashed.

Mozilla 1.0 or earlier had neither of these problems

Comment 2

[Michael A. Sypes]

Additional information:
Just lost all bookmark references again, with most recent start-up.
This time, even the default personal toolbar did not show up. I even had an
alert box appear indicating that "www.personaltoolbar.com" could not be found.
Perhaps that's a clue toward solving the problem?

Comment 3

[Jhe]

Quite the same for me. Every trace of what looks like a bookmark (including
personnal toolbar) disapeared ! I was using mozilla in fullscreen mode, then
suddenly, NT sevely crashed (blue screen). At next mozilla startup, no more
bookmarks.
Maybe it's time to chang ethis bug status ;-)

Comment 4

[Jon Levell]

*** Bug 155868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jon Levell]

I run CVS nightly builds on Linux. A couple of times over the last few weeks my
bookmark file has been "reset" to the default. I've tried creating a new profile
but that hasn't helped. If Mozilla is detecting a corrupt bookmarks file, then
it should tell the user and keep a backup before nuking the old one with the
default, then a user can try and rescue by hand if s/he wants.

Don't know when this bug first appears as it's not yet reproducable :/

Comment 6

[Jon Levell]

It's probably unrelated but it has only happened to me when I've been using this
page:

http://www.seethru.co.uk/zine/south_coast/helicopter_game.htm

for a little while. It has a java game in it and I have an old version
of the jre (1.3.1_02) that I know other people have had problems with. I'll
upgrade that and see if it helps...

Comment 7

[Jon Levell]

Ok even using the latest stable JRE (1.4.0) that page (from comment 6) still
/regularly/ removes my bookmarks if I play it for 5-10mins. Anyone got any ideas
what is going on?

Comment 8

[Pete Prodoehl]

I too have lost my bookmarks using Mozilla 1.1a on Windows 2000. I also had the
alert box about "www.personaltoolbar.com", though my personal toolbar did not
get lost.

Comment 9

[Jon Levell]

Seeing as we have people mentioning various platforms here, changing platform to
all but we might all be having separate bugs ;)

Comment 10

[Jon Levell]

Ahem. The reason updating my JRE didn't stop the URL in comment 6 deleting my
bookmarks is that it is a flash program not java, and it happens with other
flash pages to e.g. http://www.transcience.com.au/pearl2.html (Using Flash
5r47). Sorry for the java related spam.

Comment 11

[Michael A. Sypes]

Now using Build ID 2002072203 on MacOS 8.6
Bookmarks just vanished again. I can't point to anything that was done on the
last start-up. Mozilla.org is the start-up page and I was just looking at
e-mail, no websurfing at all.

Comment 12

[sweenytod]

This has happened to me several times, running Redhat Linux 7.3 and the release
version of Mozilla 1.1.

Comment 13

[Brant Gurganus]

By the definitions on <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bug_status.html#severity> and
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided>, crashing and dataloss
bugs are of critical or possibly higher severity.  Only changing open bugs to
minimize unnecessary spam.  Keywords to trigger this would be crash, topcrash,
topcrash+, zt4newcrash, dataloss.

Comment 14

[Chris Lyon]

Is anyone still seeing this problem with Mozilla 1.3b or later?

Comment 15

[Chris Lyon]

Resolving as WFM

please reopen if you disagree