sudo nautilus -> open file with ... firefox wipes/overwrites profile content - data loss

#90321 might be the same bug.

can you please try to rephrase?

Please post a simple step-by-step instruction how to reproduce and how to recognize the problem.

Thanks for your contribution,

  - Alexander

can someone please confirm this?

You asked for a simple step-by-step instruction how to reproduce.
What part of the original post needs more explanation?

Here is a more elaborate version:
1. if you are using a fresh install, start firefox and create a bookmark
2. from a terminal window: $ sudo nautilus (i.e. start nautilus as root user)
3. using the nautilus browser, find a .html file and open it with the mouse
(e.g. file: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/evince/index.html)
(this starts firefox as root user)
4. firefox should start and display the html file
(if not, right click the file and in the "open with" dialog, select firefox)
5. exit firefox
6. open firefox again
7. check the bookmark created in step 1 - it is now gone

In fact, all user files in the firefox profile have now been replaced with initial versions.
The owner of these files is the user, not root.

If firefox is started as root user using $ sudo firefox, the problem does not occur.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0000, kornelix wrote:
> You asked for a simple step-by-step instruction how to reproduce.
> What part of the original post needs more explanation?
>
> Here is a more elaborate version:

Thanks ...

 - Alexander

I have this same problem, but it also has stopped me using the back buttons, any of my history, most of the toolbar buttons and the address bar works in a crippled way. All of my extensions have stopped working, yet I can still load flash scripts. This has effectively stopped me from using firefox, and I am using seamonkey currently.

can you reproduce this in intrepid? i couldnt.

Well I don't realy want to reproduce it, but this is the thread were I got support for the problem on the ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1015914. There is a explanation of what I did, and what problems this bug caused in the thread.

Was solved in forums and looks to have been an extension problem from what i read of the forum posts.