Closed Bug 314328 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Firefox overwrites bookmarks.html when closed, even if it was unable to read bookmarks.html during startup

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251692

People

(Reporter: mdeen, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: dataloss)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Firefox overwrites the bookmark file after closing. If the bookmark file is located on a drive which is not available during startup, no bookmarks are loaded. If Firefox is then closed when the drive where the bookmark file is stored is available, the there existing bookmark file is overwritten with a fresh (empty) bookmark file. This has also happened on Firefox 1.0.7 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put bookmark file on a detachable drive (i.e. network drive) 2. Detach drive where bookmark file is stored 3. Start Firefox (note that bookmarks are empty 4. Attach drive where bookmark file is stored 5. Close Firefox Actual Results: Bookmark file is overwritten with a fresh (empty) bookmark file Expected Results: Firefox should never overwrite a bookmark file when it was not able to read it during startup
Keywords: dataloss
Summary: Overwriting bookmarks when closing → Firefox overwrites bookmarks.html when closed, even if it was unable to read bookmarks.html during startup
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251692 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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