Closed
Bug 219614
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
users home directory bookmarks.html file gets overwritten if firebird is run as root
Categories
(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: pixystyx, Assigned: p_ch)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030824 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030824 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 users home directory bookmarks.html file gets overwritten if firebird is run as root Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run firbird as a regular user and save some bookmarks 2. close firebird then reopen it as root 3. bookmarks.html file is overwritten by the root instance of firebird with a new and empty bookmarks.html file Actual Results: The bookmarks.html file is overwritten by the root instance of firebird with a new and empty bookmarks.html file Expected Results: It should have either used /root for its .phoenix directory, or not overwritten the bookmarks.html file.
Comment 1•21 years ago
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031217 Firebird/0.7+ wfm, no file gets overwritten.
Comment 2•21 years ago
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this WFM when I'm on linux, not sure what would have happened here, can this be reproduced with clean user profiles?
Comment 3•20 years ago
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-> WFM on current trunk builds and reporter never responded to request for more info. Feel free to reopen if you still see this on current trunk builds.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Comment 4•18 years ago
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sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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