In both mozilla firefox 1.0PR and thunderbird 0.8 when ever I go in to tweak prefs I get the following message "Failed to save the preferences file. Any preference changes will be lost at the end of this session." This happens on both my laptop and desktop but does not happen on the latest mozilla. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0PR mozilla-thunderbird-0.8 2. Go into firefox or thunderbird 3. Go into Edit->preferences 4. Click ok Actual Results: The error message "Failed to save the preferences file. Any preference changes will be lost at the end of this session." comes up. Expected Results: It should save my prefs.
I have the same problem after upgrading to net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre
I also noticed that changes to bookmarks are not saved. To reproduce: - add a bookmark - close and restart firefox -> the bookmark is not there anymore. Looking at the date of the bookmark.html, the last change is this morning when I quit firefox 0.9 to start the new one (so the file is indeed not written). The bookmark file has correct permissions, it seems: -rw------- 1 schmitta users 245295 Sep 16 10:02 bookmarks.html
Something's wrong with your profile, create a new one and this problem will disappear.
Emerging 0.9.3-r1 solves the problem, so if there is something wrong with the profile, it's only when used with the new version. If I create a new profile, how can I migrate my saved passwords and extensions to it?
I figured it out!!! Its rated to <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64210">this</a> bug. What you have to do is go into each profile file of each user of firefox or thunderbird and delete the file compreg.dat.
I just upgraded to firefox 1.0 pre last night ... it must have just been marked stable. I noticed the same thing ... can't save preferences. I'm also getting another problem ... I can't install themes. That one leaves a huge trail on the JavaScript console. If it doesn't go away when I delete the file mentioned in a previous comment, I'll file a new bug.
good news ... deleting "compreg.dat" also enabled installing new themes. Isn't the inability to work with an existing "compreg.dat" an upstream bug, though?
I was thinking the same thing. Anyone have a mozilla bugzilla account to report this?
Fixed in mozilla-launcher-1.20: 27 Sep 2004; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> +mozilla-launcher-1.20.ebuild: Update to 1.20, marked ~arch, to remove compreg.dat on first run of a new version #63999 Later versions of mozilla-launcher also remove other problematic files.
