Re: [Bug 329998] Re: history, bookmarks, passwords, start page all lost. address bar, menus no longer function

2009-05-28 Thread walter keller
Hi I think I did not see a precise error message, so, I don't know which file was the problem. Because root fixed it, I and the bug assignee thought it was permission related - and they closed it as bad user handling - which is not helpfull regards walter spad wrote: > Hi all, > > you are me

[Bug 329998] Re: history, bookmarks, passwords, start page all lost. address bar, menus no longer function

2009-03-02 Thread walter keller
Hi I had the same problem (running 1.5.0#2ubuntu6:), and by accident found the reason * I started firefox from eclipse running as root and shut my system down without exiting the browser * the problem happens, whenever you start firefox as user - not root * to fix the problem start firefox as ro

[Bug 329998] Re: history, bookmarks, passwords, start page all lost. address bar, menus no longer function

2009-03-04 Thread walter keller
I like your second suggestion. As of now, the user is completely blind, because nothing hints to a security problem. Probably firefox is here doing to much, to recover from lower level errors. -- history, bookmarks, passwords, start page all lost. address bar, menus no longer function https://bu