Jesse Ruderman Reporter
	Description • 19 years ago

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050714
Firefox/1.0+

Steps to reproduce:

1. ~/Desktop/DeerPark july14.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -p
2. Create a new profile
3. Look at your bookmarks.

Result: There is an empty "Imported IE Favorites" folder, even though I'm using
a Mac and never imported bookmarks from another browser.

	zug_treno
	Comment 1 • 19 years ago

Related to Suite bug 205483?

	Zach Lipton [:zach]
	Comment 2 • 19 years ago

I think this only appears if you have never used IE on the mac before you
launched Firefox though I'd need to test it on a clean system to be sure. The
correct behavior of course should be to detect this and not run the IE import
routine. 

	Jesse Ruderman Reporter
	Comment 3 • 19 years ago

Firefox for Mac should let you choose which browser to import from (Internet
Explorer, Safari, etc.) instead of just importing from IE.

For bonus points:

* Don't offer to import on a clean Mac (e.g. I've never used IE and the only
thing I've used Safari for is to download Firefox).

* On the wizard page that asks which browser to import from, have the radio
button corresponding to the default browser checked.

	David Hallowell
	Comment 4 • 19 years ago

I think this feature is a relic from seamonkey which would always create an
"Imported IE Favorites" folder on both Windows and Mac by default, as Seamonkey
has no import option like Firefox does.

So perhaps they left this relic of seamonkey in the Mac version because until
recently (it wasn't in 1.0) there were no browsers that Firefox could import
from on the Mac.

Now the IE and Safari migrators are written it should be a simple case of
stripping this code out.

	Asaf Romano (gone) Assignee
	Comment 5 • 19 years ago

This will be fixed as part of bug 236304.

	Asaf Romano (gone) Assignee
	Comment 6 • 19 years ago

fixed.