412515 - Bookmarks don't get converted from bookmarks.html to places.sqlite

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Dan Wilson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Gecko/2007100620 GranParadiso/3.0a8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Gecko/2007100620 GranParadiso/3.0a8

I installed firefox-3.0 on my Ubuntu Gutsy (from the repos).  When starting the new version, it copies the old ~/.mozilla/firefox directory to firefox-3 directory.

But my bookmarks didn't convert over.  Everything is blank.  The sqlite file appears to be fine as I was able to open it and view the schema, but no data.

I'll attach my bookmarks.html file

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.copy firefox-2 profile folder (~/.mozilla/firefox/ to new profile folder (~/.mozilla/firefox-3)
2. start firefox-3.0 from command line -- gives notice it is converting old profile
3. once open, no bookmarks
Actual Results:  
No bookmarks are converted

Expected Results:  
Convert bookmarks to new places.sqlite database

I'm not sure if this is an Ubuntu packaging problem or not, but it seems like all the Ubuntu stuff does is copy the folder.

Comment 1

[Dan Wilson]

Attachment: FF2 Bookmarks File

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Apparently it does more, like has a broken importer - see also bug 412044. Feel free to reopen if you can still reproduce the problem with a current nightly from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/, or, feel free to file a bug on Ubuntu if you think whatever was broken in what looks to be a random nightly from halfway between a8 and b1 is still broken in their versions.