259801 - start of firefox from samba network drive deletes existing bookmarks.html

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251692

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Reggie Theus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3)

- file/application server samba 3 as pdc
- firefox 010 running on windows xp client from samba drive g:
- profile is stored on samba drive k:
- firefox profiles.ini is in %APPDATA%\mozilla\firefox
- content of ini:
------------------------
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=internet
IsRelative=0
Path=K:\internet
--------------------
- prefs.js content is:
-------------------
user_pref("browser.bookmarks.file", "k:\\internet\\bookmarks.html");
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory", "c:\\temp");
user_pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false);
user_pref("browser.preferences.lastpanel", 4);
user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Google");
user_pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://10.100.100.1:81");
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:1.7.3");
user_pref("browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground", true);
user_pref("browser.tabs.opentabfor.bookmarks", true);
user_pref("extensions.disabledObsolete", true);
user_pref("extensions.lastAppVersion", "0.10");
user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "UTF-8, ISO-8859-1");
user_pref("network.cookie.prefsMigrated", true);
user_pref("network.proxy.ftp", "10.100.220.1");
user_pref("network.proxy.ftp_port", 8080);
user_pref("network.proxy.gopher", "10.100.220.1");
user_pref("network.proxy.gopher_port", 8080);
user_pref("network.proxy.http", "10.100.220.1");
user_pref("network.proxy.http_port", 8080);
user_pref("network.proxy.share_proxy_settings", true);
user_pref("network.proxy.ssl", "10.100.220.1");
user_pref("network.proxy.ssl_port", 8080);
user_pref("network.proxy.type", 1);
user_pref("security.OCSP.URL", "");
user_pref("security.OCSP.signingCA", "Builtin Object Token:Verisign Class 1 
Public Primary OCSP Responder");
user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false);
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start of firefox deletes bookmarks.html
saving of bookmarks within firfox works but after closing firefox the 
bookmarks.html. a new start of firefox shows an empty bookmark list !


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox
2. add bookmark crl-d
3. click ok to add
4. click cancel to close bookmark-add window
5. list bookmarks - all there
6. close firefox with the upper right "x"
7. start firefox
8. bookmark list - empty !


Actual Results:  
no bookmarks storable !

Expected Results:  
store bookmarks and close bookmarks-add window after clicking ok !

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

I wonder if this is a permissions problem a bug 256054 fix would solve.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Firefox bookmarks have been forked from Mozilla bookmarks...

Comment 3

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

This is a dupe of bug 251692.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251692 ***

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Gabriel you duped this WinXP bug to a Linux bug. Either you should not have done
so, or you should have changed the other to ALL.

Comment 5

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

The other bug just needs to be generalized a bit.  As pointed out in the
comments, it's a generic bug not limited to the single testcase the original
reporter pointed out.

Comment 6

[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