857588 - Search engine list empty when the profile is on a network drive.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: OS.File, defect)

Description

[jean-francois.fournier]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31

Steps to reproduce:

Update firefox to version 20.0


Actual results:

The adresse bar and search bar are not working anymore. The search engine list is empty and I cannot add or restore.


Expected results:

The adresse and the search bar should have worked.

Comment 1

[jean-francois.fournier]

I found the source of the problem. It's because my firefox profil is on a network drive.

I created a new profil (firefox.exe -P) and saved it on my local drive and it solve the issue. But I lost all my settings/add-ons/etc...

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window(m-c)
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/04abdd43606b
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121222 Firefox/20.0 ID:20121222031804
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ea373e534245
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121222 Firefox/20.0 ID:20121222051903
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=04abdd43606b&tochange=ea373e534245

Regression window(m-i)
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/c3dd1c70b310
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121221 Firefox/20.0 ID:20121221095621
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/98dddd0da122
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121221 Firefox/20.0 ID:20121221100222
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=c3dd1c70b310&tochange=98dddd0da122
Suspected:
Bug 760036 - nsIBrowserSearchService should load metadata asynchronously


Fixed window(m-c)
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8693d1d4c86d
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130330 Firefox/22.0 ID:20130330030828
Fixed:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1932c6f78248
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130330 Firefox/22.0 ID:20130330163216
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=8693d1d4c86d&tochange=1932c6f78248

Fixed window(m-i)
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/95c1cfb26fda
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130329 Firefox/22.0 ID:20130329075510
Fixed:
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/76d14e65da84
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130329 Firefox/22.0 ID:20130329083007
http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=95c1cfb26fda&tochange=76d14e65da84

Fixed by: 8db756a2bcd1	David Rajchenbach-Teller — Bug 846848 - UNC-formated paths. r=froydnj

Comment 3

[David Teller [:Yoric] (please use "needinfo")]

Thanks for the report, the fix is currently undergoing tests.

Comment 4

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

CC'ing QA here to see if they can help with verify if the uplifted patch in Bug 846848 helped here for Fx21.

Comment 5

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

(In reply to jean-francois.fournier from comment #1)
> I found the source of the problem. It's because my firefox profil is on a
> network drive.
> 
> I created a new profil (firefox.exe -P) and saved it on my local drive and
> it solve the issue. But I lost all my settings/add-ons/etc...

can you try our latest aurora build where the patch for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=846848#c40 is already existing on that channel and help verify if this issue is fixed for you ? Thanks

Comment 6

[jean-francois.fournier]

Yes, It worked with Aurora 22.0a2.

Comment 7

[Anthony Hughes (:ashughes) [QA]]

Thanks Jean-Francois.

Bhavana, I think we can call this bug "fixed by bug 846848".

Comment 8

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

(In reply to jean-francois.fournier from comment #6)
> Yes, It worked with Aurora 22.0a2.

Thanks for helping with verification here.

Comment 9

[bhavana bajaj [:bajaj]]

(In reply to Anthony Hughes, Mozilla QA (:ashughes) from comment #7)
> Thanks Jean-Francois.
> 
> Bhavana, I think we can call this bug "fixed by bug 846848".

Thanks Anthony. Marked it accordingly.

Comment 10

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Verified fixed FF 21b2 in bug 846848

Comment 11

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Verified fixed FF 20.0.1 in bug 846848