245025 - Roaming does not check different bookmarks location

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Roaming, defect)

Description

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040529 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040529 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b

If you specified a different bookmarks file, Mozilla still uses the one from
your profile for roaming.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select another location for your bookmarks (e.g. via about:config)
2. Enable roaming
3. Activate roaming bookmarks (default)
4. Exit Mozilla

Actual Results:  
The bookmarks.html file from your profile directory is used for roaming.

Expected Results:  
The alternate location of your bookmarks file should be used for roaming.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I don't think there's much point in fixing this. Not all users might expect this
behaviour, and it's a an edge case anyways, not even a UI for it (to my knowledge).

Comment 2

[timeless]

since you're roaming preferences, you should consider roaming the referenced
file, otherwise you may end up causing mozilla to dump an empty file which will
confuse the user more.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> since you're roaming preferences

No, I don't. (Good point, though.)

Comment 4

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

I moved my bookmarks file back to my profile folder when this bug was marked
WONTFIX. I originally moved it out of the folder only to be able to sync it via
FTP together with my homepage anyway.

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** Bug 263196 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***