History wiped out if disk full when firefox exits
Bug #40610 reported by
Lee Revell
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mozilla Firefox |
Invalid
|
Critical
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
If the disk is full when Firefox is closed (or crashes, or is OOM-killed by the kernel) the history will be completely wiped out. This is a grave bug as it leads to data loss.
Of course it can't save the new history if the disk is full but it should fall back to the last saved history rather than losing data.
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Unconfirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | mozillateam → mozilla-bugs |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | mozilla-bugs → nobody |
status: | In Progress → Triaged |
Changed in firefox-3.0: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Critical |
Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
affects: | firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) → firefox (Ubuntu) |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
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I'm confirming this because multiple people upstream have confirmed the same issue.
The upstream bug at https:/ /bugzilla. mozilla. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=242207 has 50 votes, and has been open for two years. If it's okay, I won't add another comment to the already long thread, as it won't make fixing the bug any faster.
The probable way that this will be fixed is through the implementation of a new history/bookmark backend: in the release notes for the first alpha release of FireFox 2.0, a new feature was:
New data storage layer for bookmarks and history (using SQLlite)
I would expect that when Ubuntu moves to FF2.0, this bug will be fixed.