27698 - History folder appears blank for existing profiles only

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[shrirang khanzode]

Used today's commercial build on windows.

1.Install and launch the browser
2.Visit some web pages by typing url in the Location box (so that these pages go 
  in history)
3.Select Tasks->Tools->History to open the History window.
4. Observe that the History window is blank.

Expected result: Ideally, all visited pages should appear in the History 
folder.

Comment 1

[Paul MacQuiddy]

shrir, can you try this on a clean profile? claudius and I don't see this

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

I had only one profile. I tried creating a new profile. History folder is not 
blank. Thanks, paul !

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

verif

Comment 4

[Claudius Gayle]

I'm reopening this bug because I feel it shouldn't happen and we need a solution. The situation is this:
a current mozilla user upgrades to a newer version of seamonkey eg Beta. They don't do anything with their profiles (no need) 
and now all of a sudden global history stops working. Not only is the window empty but Global History stops tracking newly visited 
sites as well. The only solution is to then create a new profile.

That's not a good soluton

Comment 5

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

slamm...

Comment 6

[Claudius Gayle]

just adding another data point. jrgm reports that this happened to him with today's (2000042509) linux build.

to reiterate: You install a new build, launch into an existing profile and discover that you have no global history functionality. The 
window is blank, all links are unvisited, and newly vistied sites aren't logged. The 'workaround' is to use a new profile but I 
contend it shouldn't happen in the first place.

this bug is related to bug 31575 but I don't believe the suspected cause suggested there is the case here.

Comment 7

[Claudius Gayle]

this happened again today with the 2000050111 linux builds.

Comment 8

[Steve Lamm]

I fixed this on 5/8 and it's a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37737 ***

Comment 9

[Claudius Gayle]

This bug is really about a different problem that will probably never get fixed. Bug 37737 is because history was just plain old 
broken - there was no workaround.

This bug is tracking an every now and then occurance where the history goes blank for existing profiles - creating a new profile 
'fixes' the problem and you move on from there. I've just always contended that shouldn't count. We should either stop doing 
whatever would cause that for an existing user or explicitly require a completely clean (no mozilla profiles) install for anyone 
installing and planning to use any official NS release (PR1,PR2, etc.).

Comment 10

[Steve Lamm]

oops. Sorry, I should have read the description more carefully.

Comment 11

[Claudius Gayle]

assigning back to waterson, bug 42128 (a dupe?) has some info that sheds some light on this issue.

Again, my whole crusade here is I don't think it's fair to ask anyone who has ever used mozilla before to blow away their profile 
before installing a final RTM version of the product (other installations yes, profile no) as a 'workaround' for this bug.

Comment 12

[Chris Waterson]

-> rjc

Comment 13

[Robert John Churchill]

*** Bug 42128 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Robert John Churchill]

Claudius, I'm having a tough time reproducing this... seems to work on all my 
builds (WinNT, Mac, and Linux)... also tried a commercial build, still no 
problem. This is with old mozilla profiles that I've had around for quite a 
while.

I'm going to mark this as WORKSFORME... can you retest this old bug and see if 
you can still reproduce it?

Comment 15

[Claudius Gayle]

yeah it either happens or it doesn't. All I can do is wait for it and yell when it happens again. cc'ing Alek b/c I know he's seen this 
in the past off and on as well.

Comment 16

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying WorksForMe bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

set your search string in mail to "EmperorLondoMollari" to filter out these
messages.