Firefox bookmarks gone! (more info)

Jan Kokoska kokoskaj at seznam.cz
Sat Oct 9 19:46:04 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 05:49 -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> That reminded me: the only out-of-the-ordinary thing I did to Firefox
> yesterday was running it as root (via sudo, not logged into X as root)
> to install the Google Images search plugin.  Might be a clue. *shrug*

Yup, that would be it. It loaded root's empty bookmark file and saved it
over yours. Beware.

Regards,
Jan





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