chromium-browser fails to import bookmarks from firefox

[Laurent]

Binary package hint: chromium-browser

chromium 10.0.648.205 (81283) on Ubuntu 11.04 beta 2 does not import bookmarks properly from firefox. After deleting ~/.config/chromium and starting chromium, I was offered to import the bookmarks, saved passwords etc... from firefox. I selected a few options and launched the import process. The bookmarks were not imported, even though the rest was. Now every time chromium is restarted it offers to import the bookmarks, but always fails to do so.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Looks like this bug is still valid. With chromium 62, when I browse to chrome://settings/importData and choose to import bookmarks from firefox, nothing happens, and I'm seeing the following errors in the console:

[4139:4147:1106/170427.194481:ERROR:connection.cc(1964)] places.sqlite sqlite error 1, errno 0: no such column: h.favicon_id, sql: SELECT b.id, h.url, COALESCE(b.title, h.title), b.type, k.keyword, b.dateAdded, h.favicon_id FROM moz_bookmarks b LEFT JOIN moz_places h ON b.fk = h.id LEFT JOIN moz_keywords k ON k.id = b.keyword_id WHERE b.type IN (1,2) AND b.parent = ? ORDER BY b.position
[4139:4147:1106/170427.194610:ERROR:connection.cc(1964)] places.sqlite sqlite error 1, errno 0: no such column: h.favicon_id, sql: SELECT b.id, h.url, COALESCE(b.title, h.title), b.type, k.keyword, b.dateAdded, h.favicon_id FROM moz_bookmarks b LEFT JOIN moz_places h ON b.fk = h.id LEFT JOIN moz_keywords k ON k.id = b.keyword_id WHERE b.type IN (1,2) AND b.parent = ? ORDER BY b.position
[4139:4147:1106/170427.194727:ERROR:connection.cc(1964)] places.sqlite sqlite error 1, errno 0: no such column: h.favicon_id, sql: SELECT b.id, h.url, COALESCE(b.title, h.title), b.type, k.keyword, b.dateAdded, h.favicon_id FROM moz_bookmarks b LEFT JOIN moz_places h ON b.fk = h.id LEFT JOIN moz_keywords k ON k.id = b.keyword_id WHERE b.type IN (1,2) AND b.parent = ? ORDER BY b.position

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

(that's with chromium 63.0.3239.30, not 62)

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

And that's with firefox version 56.0.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Upstream bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=690528