246087 - Installer overwrites current settings, including bookmarks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 246018

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Frits Heeb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8

The Firefox 0.9RC installer overwrites, rather than preserves, any existing
settings, including existing bookmarks. In other words: all my precious
bookmarks have gone away! Also my Toolbar Layout has been reset. Don't be worse
than IE in this respect please, cause for the rest you are far better. You rock!

Related to this: the installer tries to install in the "default" install
location (in my case under "D:\Program Files\...") rather than in the EXISTING
Firefox location (which in my case is under "C:\Program Files\..."). I already
CHOSE to install somewhere else, so why is Firefox stubborn to want to install
to the default location?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have 0.8 installed with e.g. lot of interesting bookmarks
2. Start FirefoxSetup-0.9rc.exe
3. See everything gone

Actual Results:  
They all went away. The bookmarks. And the Toolbar Layout.

Expected Results:  
Preserve, preserve, preserve.

Comment 1

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

This sounds similar to Bug 246086.  Is it possible Firefox is missing the old
profile in certain instances and thus creating a new profile importing from IE
instead?

Comment 2

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

Sorry about the spam, my mistake.  That should be Bug 246018.

Comment 3

[Frits Heeb]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This sounds similar to Bug 246086.  Is it possible Firefox is missing the old
> profile in certain instances and thus creating a new profile importing from IE
> instead?

No. Firefox imported nothing from my existing IE. It also imported 
nothing from my existing Firefox. It's all gone in Firefox. No booksmarks 
but the ones you get with a clean install, except nothing gets imported from IE
either.

Comment 4

[PikeUK]

Frits, if you start Firefox 0.8 do your bookmarks come back? If so then this is
almost certainly a dupe of Bug 246018 as mentioned in comment 1.

Comment 5

[Frits Heeb]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Frits, if you start Firefox 0.8 do your bookmarks come back? If so then this is
> almost certainly a dupe of Bug 246018 as mentioned in comment 1.

Yes, they have now mysteriously returned :-) I'm glad.
Everything seems fine now, all my old settings are back.
I also liked the old design (theme) much better (the button in the toolbars).
Will this be available in the new release too? What will be its name?

Comment 6

[Frits Heeb]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Frits, if you start Firefox 0.8 do your bookmarks come back? If so then this is
> almost certainly a dupe of Bug 246018 as mentioned in comment 1.

Oh, it now also remembered where I put the already-installed version.
So 0.9RC has some major bugs introduced that 0.8 did not have...

Comment 7

[PikeUK]

OK this problem of not bringing your bookmarks over to the new version is Bug
246018. It was fixed earlier today so when you try the final version of 0.9 you
shouldn't have this issue anymore.

And for reference the old theme was called Qute and is available for 0.9 here:

http://www.quadrone.org/graphics/

Marking this bug as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246018 ***

Comment 8

[Frits Heeb]

(In reply to comment #7)
> OK this problem of not bringing your bookmarks over to the new version is Bug
> 246018. It was fixed earlier today so when you try the final version of 0.9 you
> shouldn't have this issue anymore.
> 
> And for reference the old theme was called Qute and is available for 0.9 here:
> 
> http://www.quadrone.org/graphics/
> 
> Marking this bug as a duplicate.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246018 ***


Thanx! You guys are quick, I'm impressed :-)