Firefox bookmarks gone! (more info)

Anonymous ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Sun Oct 10 07:28:16 UTC 2004


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...



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