[Bug 343788] [NEW] firefox locked or lost settings after crash

[Sam Liddicott]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

See also bug Bug #224513

I use firefox with NFS home directories. Sometimes network connectivity
is lost or firefox crashes.

The result is 
1. that firefox will never run again without severe intervention
2. it looses all settings.

The non-trivial intervention is reduced to:
rm -f .mozilla/*/lock .mozilla/*/.parentlock 

and then it starts, but all the settings are missing, page navigation
doesn't work properly and bookmarks are missing.

The better fix is:

mv .mozilla/firefox .mozilla/firefox.old
then start firefox and import the bookmarks from .mozilla/firefox.old/*/bookmarkbackups

which just leaves the case of everything else missing.

I've had this problem ever since sqlite was used for storing
configuration and now I'm fed up with it.

It seems like sqlite is only suitable for local storage.

If firefox insists on using it, I wish it would be more robust, my
family are gnashing their teeth over it and so am I

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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