287599 - bookmarks disappear if custom search engine added

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Edmund Laugasson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 Firefox/1.0.2 SUSE/1.0.2-0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 Firefox/1.0.2 SUSE/1.0.2-0.1

Used software:
Firefox 1.0.2
SuSE 9.2
KDE 3.4.0
Gtk2 2.4.9-10.1
Kernel 2.6.8-24.11-smp

Software installed through APT-system using
ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-i386/

This mirror is created from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/ and synchronized daily
at 7:10, 15:10, 23:10

When I added from
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html#central-engines the
following search engines:
# LEO - English to German translator
# IMDB - The Internet Movie Database
...then after once using them (no matter, which one), then after restarting
Firefox, were bookmarks gone...  But, if to open bookmark management - they are
there! Doublechecked permissions and owner/group - everything were right (600
for rights and user:users for owner:group).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As root user, go to
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html#central-engines and install
 the following search engines:
# LEO - English to German translator.
# IMDB - The Internet Movie Database.
2. Open as user Firefox and use one of those search engines and close Firefox
after that.
3. After reopening Firefox, bookmarks are gone... But if you open bookmark
management - they are still there...

Actual Results:  
I loosed my bookmarks... If I didn't have backup, it could be big problem. But I
had backup :)

Expected Results:  
Bookmarks should not disappear after using self installed searching engine!

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

I am not sure what you mean by "bookmarks are gone... But if you open bookmark 
management - they are still there"

If the bookmark manager has all the bookmarks, in what sense are they gone?

Are you saying that one or more of the User interfaces to the bookmarks
is incomplete or not functional. If so, could you give a fuller recipe
for reproduction.

Comment 2

[Edmund Laugasson]

> If the bookmark manager has all the bookmarks, in what sense are they gone?

After adding those searching engines and after USING them (at least once), you
can open pull-down menu "Bookmarks", then it's empty. You can close Firefox and
reopen it - this bug remains active. I made backup before from my profile and
then I just restored old profile and so I returned my bookmarks... But this is a
workaround, not solution.
Or look to bookmarks toolbar - it's also empty. But if you open "Manage
bookmarks", then you can see those bookmarks. So, they are just not shown.

But this will happened ONLY after you install and use those searching engines,
otherwise Firefox is working properly.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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