Mozilla 1.4 Killed my Bookmarks File

[Net Llama!]

On 07/04/03 09:23, Kurt Wall wrote:

> Quoth Net Llama!:
>> How did you install it?  I've got the tarball running on 3 of my boxes, 
>> and my bookmarks are fine.
>> 
>> On 07/03/03 18:55, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> 
>> >This is fscking ridiculous - after I started Mozilla 1.4, it
>> >wiped out my existing bookmarks! If I hadn't had backup copy,
>> >I would be pissed off in the extreme. One more little surprise
>> >like this, and I'm wiping 1.4 off my machine and going back
>> >to something that behaves nicely. Right now, 1.4 is looking
>> >exceedingly bletcherous.
> 
> 
> # cd /usr/local
> # gzip -cd /archive/browser/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.4.tar.gz
> 
> Then, as a mortal user:
> 
> $ /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla &

weird.  that's what i do too.  what version were you running prior to 
installing 1.4?  Did you run mozilla as root first?  I believe that's 
neccesary to setup some funky internal registration that mozilla uses. 
I've always done it that way.


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