309137 - Customizations to the toolbar are not saved

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307558

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Sjors Hertstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

When the toolbars are customized the changes are not saved when Firefox is
closed and reopened.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a change in the toolbars (right mouse click on toolbar => Customize)
2. For example add seperator on toolbar/menubar after help
3. Close Customize Toolbar window by pressing Done button.
4. Close Firefox
5. Open Firefox

Actual Results:  
The customization(s) to the toolbar disapeared.

Expected Results:  
Save the changes to the toolbar when closing Firefox and showing the changes
when opening firefox.

Comment 1

[Sjors Hertstein]

It seems that this is because I installed FF 1.5 beta 1 over FF 1.06 (Dutch
version). I uninstalled everything and renamed all folders related to FF
(Installation Folder + "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application
Data\Mozilla" +  "C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application
Data\Mozilla"). After re-installing FF 1.5 beta 1 it works.

Comment 2

[onur]

Adding items in bookmark toolbar are saved but changing the positions of
toolbars are not saved, after restarting the firefox toolbars come to default
positions and closed ones are open.

Comment 3

[Hugo Haas]

On OSX, with 1.5RC3 freshly installed, customization of toolbars doesn't stick:
- I tried to hide the bookmark toolbar
- I tried to move buttons around

Both are gone when Firefox is restarted.

I am not sure it is related, but the geometry of the window seems to also be ignored at restart.

Comment 4

[Hugo Haas]

Version 1.5 also shows this problem.

Comment 5

[Richard Weaver]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Same problem for me. I can't be certain about when this bug first occurred for me but it was definitely not when I first moved to RC3. It *may* have started after Google Toolbar (1.0.20051122) updated itself, sorry I can't be sure.

Comment 6

[Hugo Haas]

Investigating a little more, I noticed that localstore.rdf doesn't contain anything about chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#nav-bar which I found in another localstore.rdf from a Firefox 1.07.

I tried adding the following but it didn't do the trick:

  <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://browser/content/browser.xul#nav-bar"
                   currentset="back-button,forward-button,reload-button,stop-button,home-button,urlbar-container"
                   iconsize="small" />

Comment 7

[Hugo Haas]

I found the source of my problem. Thanks to messages from the JavaScript console, I saw that me localstore.rdf had duplicate attributes (how did that happen?). After fixing this, Firefox was much happier writing its preferences to it.

So I think that others should check the validity of theirs.

Comment 8

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307558 ***