1710314 - My "default" profile got deleted when creating a new one.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[hawran]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Profile Manager (firefox --ProfileManager).
2. [Create Profile...] Create Profile Wizard appears, [Next].
3. Enter new profile name: CLEAN, [Finish].
4. [Start Firefox] , Firefox appears, close Firefox.
5. Start Profile Manager (firefox --ProfileManager).
6. Choose default profile.

Actual results:

An error message box appears:
Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

And yes, ls -al ~/.mozilla/firefox/2rfxa7ki.default/
total 4
drwx------ 1 xxx xxx 20 Mar 11 2020 .
drwx------ 1 xxx xxx 324 May 9 21:14 ..
-rwx------ 1 xxx xxx 47 Mar 11 2020 times.json

Expected results:

I'd appreciate it if my default profile remains untouched, at least.
All my bookmarks, saved passwords, installed add-ons, everything has gone.

Note: As the whole content of the directory got deleted, I'm not able to provide you with further information (add-ons, ...)

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Startup and Profile System' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Please attach a copy of ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini to this report.

Comment 3

[hawran]

(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] from comment #2)

Please attach a copy of ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini to this report.

Sorry for the delay.

cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
[Install4F96D1932A9F858E]
Default=unfn2p1s.default
Locked=1

[Profile1]
Name=media-pc
IsRelative=1
Path=gjw4627d.media-pc

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=unfn2p1s.default
Default=1

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

[Profile2]
Name=clean
IsRelative=0
Path=/tmp