Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:05:21 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremy Prior <jez@netcraft.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firefox & Migrating stored passwords Message-ID: <41DEF991.3010600@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1105131396.42329.54.camel@chagford.netcraft.com> References: <1105026654.76427.42.camel@chagford.netcraft.com> <41DD6D89.9070300@redesjm.local> <1105041825.41819.13.camel@chagford.netcraft.com> <41DDBF18.90305@redesjm.local> <1105131396.42329.54.camel@chagford.netcraft.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Prior wrote: | On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:43 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: | |>Sorry for my previous mail. This is not true. |> |>I just made a quick import test and this work great. |>(mozilla-1.7.5->firefox-1.0) |> |>Just sure that you doesn't have any master password on use in mozilla |>before import and go to <File> <Import>. | | | I've tracked down what the problem was: browser plugins. | | Firefox wasn't running the initial import, failing with: | | % firefox | firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 78 (Function not implemented) on X server :0.0. | | Subsequent runs would succeed, but the File->Import dialog didn't import | saved passwords (although it did import everything else). | | Trussing the process didn't show anything untoward, except for an | "-- UNKNOWN SYSCALL -1078988956 --" just before the above error message. | | I'm not sure which one of jdk-1.4.2p7, librsvg2-2.8.1_1, | linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_2 or mplayerplug-in-2.70_2 is causing the | problem but moving /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins out of the way, | deleting ~/.mozilla/firefox and re-running caused the import dialog to | appear and everything was imported successfully! Even better, moving | the browser_plugins back into place caused all of the plugins to appear. This problem is caused by linuxpluginwrapper. It's been brought up a lot before. I can't think of a good way temporarily disabling all plug-ins for the first startup of a new version of Mozilla/Firefox for each user. Therefore, during upgrades, it's usually better to do what you did, and move browser_plugins out of the way. Joe | | Hope this helps anyone else in the same situation. | jez - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3vmQb2iPiv4Uz4cRAqLXAJ9froBWGhid1ep+vZzGjzhYdyB0rwCeLMQ2 o1es3SbZrZSY8L6cO90255M= =cvJI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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