276448 - crash if I change profile directory

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Description

[adepali]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041223 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041223 Firefox/1.0

I have a Suse and a Gentoo installation that share the same Firefox profile. At
first, I had installed Firefox under Suse, so the profile was in
/home/xen/.mozilla. When I installed it under Gentoo, I mounted Suse's / to
/mnt/suse, and linked /mnt/suse/home/xen/.mozilla to /home/xen. Everything works
fine, but now I want to remove my Suse installation, so I remove the link and
copy /mnt/suse/home/xen/.mozilla to /home/xen/.mozilla. However when I start
Firefox, it crashes as soon as I attempt to access the bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use a symbolic link to another installation's profile
2.Work with Firefox
3.Remove the link and copy the profile to home

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes as soon as I attempt to access Bookmarks.

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Could you provide Talkback incident ID for your crash?

Comment 2

[adepali]

While this kept happening all the time yesterday, it has stopped today for no
apparent reason; everything works fine again. Changed to resolved.

Comment 3

[Adam Hauner]

No patch, not fixed...

Comment 4

[Adam Hauner]

-> WFM