check for updates should be disabled when running as root (Was: Bookmarks missing, unable to restore)

[Lolwhites]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Started Firefox as sudo, checked for updates. None available, but when I restarted as user, bookmarks had disappeared and I can't import them from the file.

The main bug here is that "check for updates" is enabled at all when running as root.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 12 11:07:54 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:10:45AM -0000, Lolwhites wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Started Firefox as sudo, checked for updates. None available, but when I
> restarted as user, bookmarks had disappeared and I can't import them
> from the file.

Try

  sudo apt-get install --reinstall firefox-3.0

and
  sudo apt-get install --reinstall xulrunner-1.9
  sudo apt-get install --reinstall xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support

(the last line only when you had gnome-support initially)

 status confirmed

Thanks,

 - Alexander