988308 - First FF 28.0 execution : failed to restore bookmarks saved in custom file

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Teuxe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140314220517

Steps to reproduce:

From Firefox 28.0, saved the current bookmarks into a custom file onto the desktop.
Reinstalled FF 28.0; ticked "launch Firefox" at the end of install.
On the first execution of FF, tried to restore bookmarks:
- Menu "Bookmarks", "show all"
- "Import / save", "restore...", "from file"



Actual results:

Any attempt to restore the saved bookmarks failed.
After having closed FF, reopened it and attempted the same operation, bookmarks restoring is successful.

Similar issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468383 (old version, branch 3.0)


Expected results:

Bookmarks should have been restored on the first attempt from the saved JSON file.

Other issue that occurred in the same time: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988303
Looks like "Launch Firefox" at the end of installer does not launch a completely functional version of FF 28.0; needs to close it and restore it.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I just tried this with an install of FF 57 and it worked fine. Looks like the reporter is gone, and this was quite old, so resolving as incomplete.