263159 - Bookmarks and Bookmark Toolbar entries are deleted if firefox is sudo run

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 236593

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Stephen Brooks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

Needed to run firefox as root to install xpi patch for recent downloader
vulnerbility.  sudo ran firefox and installed the patch but when exited and run
as the normal user all bookmarks and bookmark toolbar entries been deleted.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run firefox as normal user, import/create bookmarks and exit
2. sudo run firefox and exit
3. Run firefox as normal user again

Actual Results:  
After step 3 all the bookmarks imported/created in step 1 in the bookmarks menu
and bookmark toolbar are gone.

Expected Results:  
Not deleted the user's bookmarks.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236593 ***

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