Firefox bookmarks gone! (more info)

[Dave Miller]

Kevin Krumwiede wrote:

> Thanks for the info.  This still seems like a Firefox bug, though.  If
> it was really a matter of root's bookmarks overwriting mine, it seems
> Firefox is using one method to locate the bookmarks file when it's
> loaded, and a different method when it's saved.  If it always used $HOME
> to locate the bookmarks file, this wouldn't happen.

Actually, what more likely happened is it loaded YOUR bookmark file fine 
when you ran it as root, then saved it again AS ROOT to your profile 
directory.  The bookmarks file is then owned by root, and readable only 
by root.  You then fire up Firefox as yourself, and now it can't read 
the bookmarks file because it's owned by root.  But the directory is 
still owned by you, which means you can delete it.  So it proceeds to 
write out the default bookmark file over top of it.
-- 
  - justdave