541260 - Cannot migrate from firefox 3.5 to 3.6

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Steffen Michalke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

I defined a new profile for FF 3.6 (firefox -P, FF 3.5), then copied the content of the profile directory of my FF 3.5 installation to it. Then I ran FF 3.6 with that profile. Worked fine.

Then I closed and restarted FF 3.6. Now I got the error messages:
GetCharPref('id') failed
GetCharPref('version') failed

FF died immediately.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a new profile, say 3.6, with FF 3.5.
2. Copy the 3.5-profile to the new directory.
3. Start FF 3.6 with -P 3.6.
4. Shutdown the browser.
5. Start FF 3.6 as in 3.)

Actual Results:  
FF does not start.

Expected Results:  
FF should run with the copied profile.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

try safe mode, could be some add-on is not compatible or causing issues.

http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

also, it's possible you did not copy the profile correctly.
did you copy it while both instances of the browser were closed?

Comment 3

[Steffen Michalke]

Thank you a lot, safe mode works fine. I will have to try the extensions one by one.

Comment 4

[Steffen Michalke]

OK, for the record, keyconfig breaks FF 3.6. Everything else works very fine here.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

thanks for getting back to us. you can report to the extension developer if you desire.