Bug 302031

Summary:	firefox-3.6 all preferences and bookmarks gone
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Karl Ernst Brunk <ke.b>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info

Description Karl Ernst Brunk 2010-01-24 10:23:38 UTC

after updating from 3.5 all my bookmarks and preferences lost.
even reimport the bookmark-backups does not work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -u mozilla-firefox
2.start firefox
3.

Actual Results:  
all bookmarks and preferences lost

Expected Results:  
the should be imported like always


the message at re-import :
Die Backup-Datei konnte nicht verarbeitet werden.
something like :
The backup-file could not be threatened

Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2010-01-24 19:45:15 UTC

emerge --info is missing.

Comment 2 Karl Ernst Brunk 2010-01-24 21:30:54 UTC

Created attachment 217333 [details]
emerge --info

emerge --info
and :
correction the preferences are not lost. The error is that the import of the old bookmarks does not work correctly. A new bookmarks.html is build and all tries of reimporting the last backupfile dont work.
but
workaround:
1. cp the json-backup-file to somewhere
2. delete ~/.mozilla
3. start firefox again
4. now import the copied json-file
my guess is the change of the sqlite USE-Flag. 3.6 is not using sqlite.