687182 - Safe-mode dialog erases settings without warning

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 533300

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2 Iceweasel/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110906070925

Steps to reproduce:

started iceweasel with the -safe-mode option, and partially due to the asinine GTK button order, I clicked "Make changes and restart" instead of "Continue in safe mode". 

 




Actual results:

In addition to the browser's settings, I also lost settings for my extensions. For example, all sites I whitelisted in Noscript and Flashblock are gone.

All this happened without warning, and absolutely no backup of any kind was performed on my ~/.mozilla directory.


Expected results:

I think at the very least an "are you sure" dialog should have been offered, and probably something like "back up your settings before overwriting all of them".

I really don't think my extensions settings should have been touched.