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  1. Bug #428306
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 428306

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 428306] Re: default search engines have keywords wiped with upgrade to 3.5.3

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:25:31AM -0000, Hew McLachlan wrote:
> I just reproduced the issue.
>
> 0) I am starting with up-to-date Karmic including Firefox 3.5.3
> 1) Force downgrade of firefox-3.5, firefox-3.5-branding and firefox-3.5-gnome-support to 3.5.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 (fortunately I still had the amd64 debs in /var/cache/apt/archives)
> 2) Run 'firefox-3.5 -profilemanager' and create a new profile
> 3) Go to 'Manage Search Engines'. Add keywords to some of the default search engines, and remove some others
> 4) Close firefox
> 5) Upgrade to up-to-date Karmic (currently firefox-3.5 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3)
> 6) Run 'firefox-3.5 -profilemanager' and choose the previously created profile
> 7) Go to 'Manage Search Engines'
>
> The search engines have no keywords, and deleted ones have been
> restored.

Hmm. ok. can you post the versions you are downgrading to?

Another thing i would appreciate you could try would be to get the current
firefox-3.0 packages ... start with a fresh profile (move away $HOME/.mozilla dir
first) and see if directly going to the current 3.5 ones from there would expose
the same issue.

thanks!

 - Alexander