206890 - crash causes loss of filters created during session

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[John Ellson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509

If new filters are added during a session, then an abnormal termination
occurs, the newly created filters are lost.

This bug could well be related to bug#131105 which describes loss of bookmarks
in tthe browser under similar circumstances.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.add filter
2.killall -9 mozilla-bin
3.

Actual Results:  
new filters are lost

Expected Results:  
filters should be persistently stored when they are first created
so as to be immune from later crashes

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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