98038 - bookmarks are not syncronized between multiple instances of mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 76431

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Andrew Silent]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080104

If i open several (at least 2) instances of mozilla and try to mange bookmarks
in any manner other instances doesn't notice that. Futhermore, if last instance
of mozilla that I exit is not that one, in which i had managed bookmarks, all
changes are discarded.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open two instances of mozilla: (a) and (b)
2. edit bookmarks in any manner in (a)
3. close (a)
4. close (b)
5. run mozilla again and see, that all changes gone :(

Actual Results:  changes in bookmarks panel competely discarded

Expected Results:  changes in bookmarks panel must be accepted

it's a simpe, but VERY annnoyng bug

Comment 1

[Christian Reis]

Reporter, can you please try and reproduce this using a current build. I'm on
Linux, same arch, and I can't see that with 2001090308. This is an important
issue and I'm sure it would be reported by now. 

Can you try with a fresh ~/.mozilla/ directory too, please? 

I'm awaiting your followup.

Comment 2

[Christian Reis]

Reporter, I can see the bookmarks refreshing on two windows. But wait;
is your report referring to having two __instances of the browser__
open? As in running mozilla from the shell and then running another
browser?

Comment 3

[Christian Reis]

From email:

> i run two instance of mozilla from a launcher in Gnome's panel
> and bug is 100% reproducabe in my envirounment:
> Linux 2.4.5 (Slackware 8.0)
> XFree86 v 4.1.0
> Gnome 1.4

Reporter, this behaviour  never did work with Netscape and I doubt it will with
Mozilla, but I am finding a bug to dupe this one against. To open two windows,
use the New Browser Window menu option, or click with middle button on a link.
When browsing with multiple windows, bookmarks will syncronize perfectly.
bug 31575 covers a consequence of this, but it's not bookmarks. I'll mark new
and try DUPEME and WONTFIXME. Ben, this is more of a profile thing but you can
close it off if you like.

Comment 4

[Claudius Gayle]

interesting that this and bug 98016 would be filed so close to each other
comepletly independently. Anyway it would seem they are both dupes of bug 76431

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76431 ***

Comment 5

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe