202322 - installing 1.4a over 1.3 failed and trashed my bookmarks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 163818

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Jason Merrill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

I just loaded up Mozilla 1.3, and it told me that 1.4a was out.  So I downloaded
and ran the installer.  Everything seemed to go fine until after the reboot,
when I got some 50 or so dialog boxes complaining that mozilla.exe couldn't find
some dll (something like xpicom_compat.dll, usually) or symbol in a dll.  So I
ran the installer again, and that time it worked and Mozilla started up
normally.  But all of my bookmarks were gone.  The only thing left in my
Bookmarks menu is the "Imported IE Favorites" subfolder, which is empty.

You might want to withdraw the Windows 1.4a installer until this bug is fixed,
to avoid screwing other users.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jason Merrill]

Furthermore, the Personal Toolbar doesn't seem to work (even after I've created
a new toolbar folder and marked it as such); the links don't show up on the
toolbar, and dragging links to the toolbar has no effect.

Comment 2

[Sean Su]

looks like a symptom of bug 190816.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163818 ***

Comment 4

[Grace Bush]

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