Closed Bug 321566 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Many copies of bookmarks.html in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ecc.

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 294584

People

(Reporter: mora, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; it; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; it; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Every time you quits Firefox a copy of bookmarks.html is made in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ecc. If you don't pay attention to that and manually remove these copie which name is bookmarks-n.html (n is a Natural as 1, 2, ..., n) your Firefox folder will explode (mine is now containing 189 copies for 97 MBytes from last manual removal 30 days ago). This is not happening if you use an EMPTY bookmarks.html file (eg. the default one) and will happen with a normal bookmark (CMD-D) use. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Delete bookmarks.html in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ecc. 2. Make some new ones (with CMD-D or via Menu choice) 3. Quit Firefox Actual Results: This will happen Expected Results: Only ONE bookmarks.html in ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ecc. is expected except a .bak
If you're running 10.4 then it's probably bug 294584, if not then it's usually bookmarks.html or bookmarks.html.moztemp or both being set read-only.
Bug 157152 is the other bug referred in comment 1
confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 i have also a "bookmarkbackups" folder Never cleaned ?
Josh: can we just dupe this off with bug 294584?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 294584 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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