Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

Lost all settings

Bug #224513 reported by Brad Youngman
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox has lost all settings: bookmarks, home page, passwords, everything. Cannot set and keep a new home page. Firefox starts with a blank page and when the "home" icon is pressed, the Firefox home starts.

Using Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Problem happened after Adblock Plus notified me of a database update, which failed. I disabled Adblock Plus, but problem remains.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 29 20:09:06 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Brad Youngman (brad-youngman) wrote :
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Brad Youngman (brad-youngman) wrote :

Workaround is to uninstall Firefox 3 with Synaptic, and then install Firefox 2 with Add/Remove. All "lost" data recovered with the installation of Firefox 2. Firefox 3 is reinstalled at the same time, but still is broken.

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Tom (tom6) wrote :

Nicely done so far tho, good luck :)

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We are wondering if this is still an issue for you or if this just happened one time and could not be reproduced so far.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Brad Youngman (brad-youngman) wrote : Re: [Bug 224513] Re: Lost all settings

Bug 224513 was resolved when Firefox 3 passed through beta to final
release. I have no further issues with Firefox.

Brad Youngman

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 16:11 +0000, Martin Mai wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224513
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thanks. Closing the bug.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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