412876 - Migration from IE and Opera to Firefox wipes out Firefox default Bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P4)

Description

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Attachment: Bookmark menu after IE Import

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011704 Minefield/3.0b3pre

In Bug 386678 we fixed this problem and the default bookmarks should append when do a Migration from other Browsers.

When you do now a Migration from IE to Firefox, the default bookmarks in the bookmark menu and toolbar are wiped out.

Steps to reproduce:
New Profile
Launch Firefox
Migration Wizard comes up
Import IE Data
Default Bookmarks are wiped out

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

same Problem also with Opera and the Migration to Firefox

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Not blocking on this bug for final ship. Would take a safe enough patch if one comes through.

Comment 3

[Régis Caspar]

Duplicate of bug 408421?

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Duplicate of bug 408421?

this is different since that bug involves the user choosing File / Import, while this bug is about the initial migration wizard.

Btw, while fixing bug 474582 (and with that patch applied) i was still seeing default bookmarks after importing from IE7, i did't try Opera though, would be interesting see if this is still valid (clearly after bug 474582 is fixed)

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Tomcat could you try migrating from Opera? This should be wfm i think.

Comment 6

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

please re-open, if you can reproduce with latest builds.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv