376314 - The links toolbar disappears upon opening a new copy of Firefox when there is an existing copy of the program running with an open "browse file" window.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257121

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Robert Rafii]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Let's say you're on www.imageshack.us and you're about to upload an image, so you click the browse button to pick a file.  While the browse window is open, you open another copy of Firefox only to find that the links toolbar is blank.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Imageshack.us (or any website that lets you upload stuff from your computer) and click browse.  Do not close the browse window.
2. Open a fresh copy of Firefox while the browse window on the other copy of Firefox is still running.
3. Observer that the new copy of Firefox you've opened is missing all the links you'd normally have on your links toolbar.
Actual Results:  
The links disappeared from the links toolbar.

Expected Results:  
The links should not disappear from the links toolbar.

I'm running Windows XP with the Silver theme (as opposed to the blue theme), though I doubt it makes a difference.

Comment 1

[Robert Rafii]

Attachment: A screenshot of the bug.

Comment 3

[Robert Rafii]

So it's been three years and no one has fixed the bug?