273576 - Attribute "hidden" on bookmarks.html causes profile directory being filled with files bookmarks-1.html ... bookmarks-9999.html

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157152

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Marcus von Cube]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

Somehow, my bookmarks.html file got the "hidden" attribute set. When a need
arose to update the bookmarks (e. g. a change in "last visited"), Firefox
started to fill the profile directory with 10000 versions of the file, named
bookmarks-1.html up to bookmarks-9999.html. This occured serveral times a
minute, hogging my system because FF tried to read in the complete directory
every time. I guess that an each try, a new version of the file was created
until the final limit, 9999, had been reached.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to profile directory (should work in OS/2 and Windows the same way)
2. attrib +h bookmarks.html
3. start FF
4. update a bookmark or simply load a page from a bookmark; the latter should
update the "last visited" field of that bookmark and cause an update of the file
5. Let FF run and watch the profile directory.

Actual Results:  
The profile directory contained 10000 copies of bookmarks.html, named
bookmarks-1.html to bookmarks-9999.html

Expected Results:  
Update the single bookmarks.html file.

Comment 1

[Marcus von Cube]

This is probably an OS/2 only problem. I couldn't reproduce the behaviour in
Windows 2000.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Duping to bug 157152 anyway. If it turns out fix for OS/2 is different from win,
this could be reopened.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157152 ***

Comment 3

[Martin Sch]

This one is firefox, the other one is mozilla. Maybe this is not exactly the same...

Comment 4

[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