Firefox bookmarks gone! (more info)

[Jan Kokoska]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 22:15 -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 20:46:04 +0100
> Jan Kokoska <kokoskaj at seznam.cz> wrote:
> 
> > Yup, that would be it. It loaded root's empty bookmark file and saved
> > it over yours. Beware.
> 
> Why would it save to a different file than it loaded from?  That seems
> like a bug.

Umm, yes ;) If it loads empty bookrmarks when you're root, that is
correct as ~/.firefox is another directory in that case.. but that your
bookmarks would be empty afterwards when running firefox as a user would
be a bug. Please check what ~/.firefox is it really using and preferably
test it again:

user$ firefox
create a bookmark, close firefox
user$ firefox
verify that the bookmark is there
root# firefox
no bookmarks, fine
user$ firefox
no bookmarks either, bad

This would be a problem, if so, please file a bug with the details. You
can grep into strace magic for wisdom on what is really going on, or
just leave it to developers.

Regards,
Jan