292551 - Will not import bookmarks from the File->Import menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267630

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[John Whitten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Subject says it. The dialog comes up, says: "Import Preferences, Bookmarks,
History, Passwords and other data from:", and then the two buttons "Cancel" and
"Next", but nothing else. Pressing "Next" does nothing interesting. Pressing
"Cancel" closes the dialog as it should.

Importing from Bookmarks Manager does work, but also has a problem. It will not
"see" dot-files or dot-directories. So you can't go into, say, the old
".mozilla" directory to get the old bookmarks. IMO, this is also a bug.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
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Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

You need to use the bookmark manager to import bookmarks [bookmarks -> manage
bookmarks -> in the bookmarks manager window -> File -> import. 

The settings importer in File -> import in the main window is still under
development for Linux.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

I suspect that the file picker uses the gtk settings for showing hidden files.

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267630 ***