1845514 - [macOS] History alone cannot be imported from Safari if Safari wasn’t closed before at least one time

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Migration, defect, P3)

Description

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

Found in

• 117.0a1 (2023-07-25)

Affected versions

• 117.0a1 (2023-07-25)

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: macOS 12, macOS 13 ARM
• Unaffected platforms: Ubuntu 22, Windows 10x64

Preconditions

• new macOS profile
• only history saved inside Safari and Safari browser is not closed

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Firefox and import History from Safari.

Expected result

• History is imported successfully.

Actual result

• After granting Safari folder permissions the import wizard does not import History.

Regression range

• Not a regression, before bug 1838432 was fixed history alone could no be imported from Safari.

Additional notes

• Attached a screen recording here on a macOS profile that Safari was never closed.
• Restarting Firefox will no longer display Safari as an import option.
• Note that this issue happens only if the Safari browser was not ever closed before and has only History saved.

Comment 1

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

:atrif, if you think that's a regression, could you try to find a regression range using for example mozregression?