287584 - Navigation toolbar not tracking or working. Bookmarks not being maintained

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tarang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I upgraded to Firefox 1.0.2 to find that the Navigation toolbar and Bookmarks
toolbar do not work. This is to say 
 1) "page forward/back" does not light up to allow one to move in the history of
pages viewed.
 2) Home page icon does not take me to the "Home page" set
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to Firefox 1.0.2 from previous installation of Firefox
2. try going to home page that had been previously set to anything other then
www.mozzila.org
3. try navigating into a series of pages, and then backing up on that using
Forward/Back icon buttons



Expected Results:  
2:Homepage always takes you to www.mozilla.org
3:URL's do not show up when clicking into links,
  URL's do not show on "mouse over"

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Tarang, can you tell me what the file permissions are for your Firefox profile
files located at C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random characters.[profile name]]  I'm especially
interested in permissions on your history.dat and bookmarks.html. It sounds like
you no longer have permission to modify those files. 

Comment 2

[Tarang]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Tarang, can you tell me what the file permissions are for your Firefox profile
> files located at C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application
> Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random characters.[profile name]]  I'm especially
> interested in permissions on your history.dat and bookmarks.html. It sounds like
> you no longer have permission to modify those files. 

(In reply to comment #1)

First of all as I couldn't do much with Firefox 1.0.2 so I had it uninstalled.
Currently I am running Firefox 1.0 Preview release
As for the permissions to history.dat and bookmarks.html, they are the default
permissions i.e read/write + ready for archiving + allow indexing service to index

Comment 3

[AJS]

I saw something very similar after downloading today's nightly build.  I have 
Firefox 1.0.4 on my machine already, and downloaded the nightly bulid (the Zip 
file) to verify that a bug I filed had been fixed.  I unzipped the Zip file, 
ran Firefox [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) 
Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0+] from there, and it seemed to work fine.  I went 
back to running the regular 1.0.4 release.  Then, I went back to running the 
nightly build, and lo and behold I see what Tarang sees -- I see only disabled 
buttons, an always-empty location box (unless I type something into it), 
nothing on my bookmark bar, etc.  Sounds rather similar.

Perhaps I should not be trying to run both 1.0.4 and 1.1, but I thought I'd 
mention this since it sounds very similar.

Comment 4

[AJS]

Attachment: picture of what I see when starting Mozilla 1.0+ now

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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