Firefox bookmarks gone! (more info)

[Ville Vainio]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 20:46 +0100, Jan Kokoska wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that happened to me too. How's that for screwed up behaviour...