No saved passwords after firefox update

Bug #273838 reported by Tommy Brunn
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

After updating several firefox related packages this morning (firefox-3.0 being one of them), all my saved passwords were gone and it wouldn't ask me to save my passwords when I re-entered them.

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
firefox-3.0:
  Installed: 3.0.2+build6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.2+build6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.2+build6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

Tommy Brunn (tommybrunn)
description: updated
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

my passwords are still remembered. Please be sure that you restarted your firefox properly (relogin to be sure).

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Samuel Abels (knipknap) wrote :

Same problem here.

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Unknown 1 (unknown-111-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I also have this problem...

I even removed the profile (of course copied to somewhere else), created a new one and still doesn't record passwords...

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KAMI (kami911) wrote :
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