498207 - 3.0.11 breaks mac 10.5 network users, only works on local users

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 497792

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Browning]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060214 Firefox/3.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060214 Firefox/3.0.11

Firefox 3.0.11 breaks what was fixed in Firefox 3.0.10 which is it works on Mac OS X 10.4.x and 10.5.x network users where their home folder resides on an AFP (Apple File Protocol, port 548) server.  When I upgraded to 3.0.11 it couldn't read anything in my profile and any configuration options weren't saved.  

I pulled out my profile from ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox and while it created another one it too suffered the same problem.  No book marks no add-ons and no configuration could be saved.

I have 2156 users and I want their experience "safer" but not at the cost of shotty coding, please fix ASAP, I have rolled back to 3.0.10.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open browser as a network user.
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Actual Results:  
blank browser, no book marks, no add-ons, nothing.

Expected Results:  
Ummm my normal browser window with my saved tabs bookmarks and add-ons.  You know NORMAL operation.

Comment 2

[Mike]

I can verify this problem as well. I had 7 network Mac users affected before mandating no further Firefox updates.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Please move over to bug 498207. We are already working on a fix.