360759 - browser.bookmarks.file doesn't get saved

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Stephen Rasku]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8

I am unable to modify browser.bookmarks.file using about:config.  If I reset it or modify its value it always reverts to its previous version when I restart Firefox.  

This value is not currently the default.  I have changed the drive letter of one of my drives and I want to change the drive letter for my bookmarks so that Firefox can find them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. about:config
2. modify browser.bookmarks.file
3. exit Firefox
4. restart Firefox
5. about:config

Actual Results:  
browser.bookmarks.file has reverted to previous value

Expected Results:  
browser.bookmarks.file should keep the value manually specified when editing in about:config.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061114 BonEcho/2.0

Works perfectly here. Probably there is still a user.js present with the pref pointing to a certain location.
For further help see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38
 

Comment 2

[Stephen Rasku]

I searched my whole hard drive for user.js and it doesn't exist.  I looked at the forums but there was nothing relevant.  It seems that you are testing with a different version than me.  Re-opening...

Comment 3

[Stephen Rasku]

I have upgraded to Firefox 2.0 and I am still seeing the problem.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

invalid for trunk, browser.bookmarks.file is unused by Places.