228629 - (roamingtracking) [Tracking] Critical roaming bugs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Roaming, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

All non-blocking bugs for the code developed in bug 124029 should block this bug.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Now this bug tracks regressions and serious bugs (crashes, dataloss, complete
disfunction)

Comment 2

[Joe McCabe]

I do not see this feature publish data to the specific FTP server:

Edit | Preferences | Roaming User
  X Enable remote profile storage
  HTTP / FTP
  Base URL ftp://ftp.machine.com/moz_roaming/
  Username qwe
    X Save password
  Password **********

My proxy server shows no FTP activity, and no files appear in the subdirctory
"moz_roaming" directory of user "qwe" on ftp.machine.com.

A relaunch of Mozilla throws a error about unable to retrieve an empty file,
then the startup proceeds using the local copies of the profile.

Aside - Under Item Selection "Passwords (dangerous)" and "Fill Form Data" do not
remain "checked" after a restart.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Please do not add comments to this bug. If you are sure to have found a real
bug, file it and add it as "blocking" dependency to this bug, if it's severe.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

ben, i notice in the patch you just landed that you refer to cookperm.txt. that
file is deprecated and no longer used - the new filename is hostperm.1. perhaps
you'd like to fix that? (also, how do you propose to keep the filenames in your
new code synchronized with changes to other respective modules, such as has
happened here?)

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

dwitte, I filed bug 244558. Again, please do not add comments here.
(BTW, bugs should be added as "depends on" here, my comment 3 was wrong.)

Comment 6

[Prognathous]

Is there any open bug that requests to transfer the profile using encrypted
communication? All I could find are three bugs that discuss
encryption/password-protection of the profile itself:

Bug 16489 - Password Protection of Profiles {Core:Profile:Backend)
Bug 98346 - Option to encrypt all personal infos {Core:Mail&News:Backend)
Bug 19184 - Encrypt Bookmark Folders, Cache, etc. Inside A Profile for privacy
{Core:Profile:Backend)

Prog.

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Roaming bugs are now tracked in the "Core: Profile: Roaming" bugzilla category,
no need to add all roaming bugs here.
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Core&component=Profile%3A+Roaming&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED>

This tracking bug is intended to keep record of *critical* roaming bugs, which
prevent the /majority/ of users from using roaming. Please don't add any bugs to
the dependencies here (nor add comments), I'll add the critical bugs myself when
I get aware of them.

Also removing some resolved bugs (apart from bug 124029, an important link), to
clear the air for the remaining ones (sorry for the spam!).

Comment 8

[Andrey Kiryanov]

Please add bug #249439 to the dependency list of this bug.
Support of secure transfers is VERY important for roaming.

Comment 9

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This bug is filed in a bugzilla component related to pre-Firefox code which no longer exists. I believe it is no longer relevant and I am therefore closing it INCOMPLETE.

If you believe that this bug is still valid and needs to be fixed, please reopen it and move it to the Toolkit:Startup and Profile System product/component.