228985 - Bookmarks are written to disk only on application exit

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218636

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Eric Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

It seems that bookmarks.html is only written to disk upon application
exit.  I was running firebird for about a month straight without exiting.
It crashed for reasons unknown, and all my bookmark changes were lost.

IMHO bookmarks.html should be written to disk more frequently than once
per application lifetime.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run mozilla.
2. Make bookmark changes.
3. Kill mozilla in a non-nice way.

Actual Results:  
Bookmark changes were not saved, even if there was a long period of time between
steps (2) and (3).

Expected Results:  
Write bookmark changes to disk periodically.

I wouldn't describe the problem as "critical", but it does "cause me to
lose data".  That's why I'm choosing Severty = "Critical".

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Duping, please reopen if you disagree. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218636 ***

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change