Firefox can't import data from Seamonkey
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(Firefox :: Migration, enhancement)
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(Reporter: democritus7, Unassigned)
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(Keywords: pm-triage-needed)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.13
Steps to reproduce:
The Firefox I'm using comes with the latest Debian distro and is version 91ESR. It's meant to provide good service for several years. I started Firefox with a new clean profile so the offer to import data would appear, and selected it.
Actual results:
Firefox offered to import data from Chrome, which I do not have on my system, not even datafiles. And it apparently didn't look for or detect Seamonkey, which has my profile in a subfolder under the main .mozilla folder as the Firefox profile folder.
Expected results:
Firefox should have identified the presence of at least one Seamonkey profile (there are actually 2 or 3 that I kept for backup) and asked which Seamonkey profile to import data from. On selecting the profile, Firefox then should have imported the data. I would guess that in the past, Firefox had the code to import from Seamonkey, and then it was ill-advisedly removed.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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Bugzilla is incorrectly reporting the version of Firefox I'm having the problem with. it's version 91ESR, the version in the most recent Debian Linux distro. And I'm running the most recent Seamonkey too, which for some odd reason seems to be using older Gecko code.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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(In reply to democritus7 from comment #1)
Bugzilla is incorrectly reporting the version of Firefox I'm having the problem with. it's version 91ESR, the version in the most recent Debian Linux distro. And I'm running the most recent Seamonkey too, which for some odd reason seems to be using older Gecko code.
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Comment 3•3 years ago
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(In reply to democritus7 from comment #2)
(In reply to democritus7 from comment #1)
Bugzilla may be incorrectly reporting the version of Firefox I'm having the problem with. it's version 91ESR, the version in the most recent Debian Linux distro. And I'm reporting this with my user-agent, the most recent Seamonkey, which for some odd reason seems to be using older Gecko code.
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Comment 4•3 years ago
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Thank you for submitting this report. Setting the component and waiting for the developer's opinion about it.
If this is not the correct component, please feel free to change it to a more appropriate one.
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Comment 5•3 years ago
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(In reply to democritus7 from comment #0)
I would guess that in the past, Firefox had the code to import from Seamonkey, and then it was ill-advisedly removed.
This code has never existed at any point. There was an importer for netscape removed in bug 679016 (a decade ago!) which was internally called seamonkey, but as the comments on that bug note, it never supported more modern seamonkey.
This is effectively a new feature request and as such would need product triage.
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