294118 - Complete history loss after deleting entry

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[mrnobo1024]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

If you visit a new page, and then delete it from global history, the stuff
written to history.dat causes Firefox to lose all history next time it starts.

Example of a section written to history.dat that caused loss:
@$${249{@
{1:^80 {(k^81:c)(s=9)1 } [-1918(^82^4B1B)(^84^4B1C)(^85^4B1C)(^88=)(^8A=1)
    (^86=2)(^87^4B1D)]-1918 }
@$$}249}@

(The atoms 4B1B et al were never written to history.dat since they were deleted
before the update)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start with a large history.dat (so firefox just adds @$${ sections at the end
instead of rebuilding the whole file)
2. Go to a web page you've never been to before
3. Delete it from history (shift+delete in autocomplete)
4. Restart Firefox

Actual Results:  
All global history is lost.

Expected Results:  
The history that wasn't deleted should stay there.

Comment 1

[slatko.hasp]

It happens for me too, but I canät reproduce it everytime. It just happens
almost ranodmly it seems, but I'm pretty sure that it has to do with using
"shift+delete" since I've just started using it.

I'm using XP

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717
Firefox/1.0.6

Comment 2

[GeorgeParnell]

I can consistantly reproduce this bug with the latest nightly trunk build.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050808
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Hans-Joachim Schrieb]

It happens for me too, but I can't reproduce it everytime. It just happens
almost randomly it seems, but I'm pretty sure that it has to do with using
"shift+delete" since I've just started using it.

I'm using XP

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919
Firefox/1.0.7

Comment 4

[Paul Gregg]

Duplicate of Bug 242207, looks like it won't be fixed uptil Firefox 2.0

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007101214 Minefield/3.0a9pre