435691 - Sidebar state (Bookmarks/History) not saved on shutdown.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob North]

Attachment: History sidebar visible, expected bookmark... but sidebar is titled bookmarks!!!

When shutting down, PC, doesn't store sidebar state.


Steps to reproduce:

1. Open history sidebar, and exit Firefox
2. Re-start Mozilla, and switch sidebar to bookmarks.
3. Shutdown machine
4. Re-start machine, and re-start Firefox.

Expected result:

	Shows bookmarks sidebar

Actual result:

	Shows history sidebar, but title says "Bookmarks" !!!

I find it interesting that the title is now correct, but the actual
sidebar contents are incorrect.

I will add attachments showing the odd title to the sidebar.

Comment 1

[Rob North]

Attachment: Showing history sidebar correctly rendered

Comment 2

[Rob North]

Attachment: Showing bookmarks sidebar correctly rendered

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I was not able to reproduce this on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008052506 Minefield/3.0pre

Comment 4

[Rob North]

Interesting, for me, it happens every time.
Is that a nightly build you're using?

My version string is as follows:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

Note the slightly different version number, and language.

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

The nightly builds can be downloaded here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.9.0/

Comment 6

[Rob North]

Still failing with the following build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008052606 Minefield/3.0pre

.... Which is the same as yours.

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Did you try e.g. deleting localstore.rdf, safe-mode to rule out extension/theme problems, a new profile?

Comment 8

[Rob North]

Not yet, Hopefully I'll have time to do this kind of digging next weekend.

My plan of action would be:
1. Make backup of current profile

Try to repeat the bugs in the following cases:

2. Try launching with clean profile.
3. Try launching in safe mode.
4. delete localstore.rdf

Comment 9

[Rob North]

Ok I can still repeat in the following cases:

1. Re-start XP with clean profile (profile 'A').
2. Launch safemode minefield (using the clean profile), re-start XP..., launch ordinary minefield with profile 'A'.
3. using clean profile, Select following options in safemode:
*disable all add-ons
*reset toolbars and controls.
*reset bookmarks to defaults.
*prefs to defaults.
*search to default.
then re-start, and open minefield with profile 'A'

NOTE:
In some cases I was only adding bookmark sidebar, when none was shown.
In this case, re-start would snow no sidebar.

Comment 10

[Rob North]

P.S. All these tests were don on the following Minefield version:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008053006 Minefield/3.0pre

Finally, I have re-started my normal profile 7-15 times over the last week in minefield.
On each case the bug appeared.

Comment 11

[:Gijs (away/busy until Mar 10)]

I'm fairly sure this works correctly now. If it doesn't, we'll need up-to-date STR.