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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Oct 2017
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EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chrome forgets "Always show the bookmarks bar" across system updates

Project Member Reported by michaelsafyan@google.com, Aug 8 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 8350.68.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
Platform: 52.0.2743.116 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Steps to reproduce the problem:
On the prior version of Chrome:

1. Navigate to chrome://settings 
2. Check the "Always show the bookmarks bar" option
3. Apply the update to the current version

Note that this also happened for updating from $CURRENT_VERSION-2 to $CURRENT_VERSION-1.

What is the expected behavior?
This option should persist across system updates

What went wrong?
When one does a "restart to install", the browser shows bookmarks on new tabs but not on existing tabs, and navigating to chrome://settings/ shows that the option is unchecked.

Did this work before? Yes Several versions ago I do not recall this option being forgotten on an update operation.

Chrome version: 52.0.2743.116  Channel: stable
OS Version: 8350.68.0
Flash Version:
 
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Comment 1 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Aug 10 2016

Labels: Hotlist-Google
Components: -UI UI>Settings UI>Browser>Bookmarks
Owner: dbeam@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
Possibly something changed in terms of how the setting is handled?  Seems weird that an update would cause this to be lost.

Comment 3 by dbeam@chromium.org, Aug 10 2016

is it *just* the "Always show the bookmarks bar" or other things as well?
As far as I can tell, this is the only setting that is lost on the update.

Comment 5 by dbeam@chromium.org, Jul 6 2017

Owner: ----
I'm no longer working on Chrome, and unlikely to fix any bug I'm currently assigned.

So this bug doesn't languish, I'm unassigning myself.

Comment 6 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jul 28 2017

Status: Available (was: Assigned)
Bulk edit, marking "Assigned" bugs with no owner to "Available".

Comment 7 by sky@chromium.org, Jul 28 2017

This sounds like preferences are getting lost. Is this still reproducible?
This only occurs on OS update, but I have not observed this recently.
Status: WontFix (was: Available)
I have this pref set and I haven't seen it get lost across updates, so I except this was a one time glitch. Please re-open if you see it again.

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