Bookmarks not saved when exiting firefox

Bug #250863 reported by Toni Sagristà Balanzat
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Hi,

I'm using Hardy (upgraded from Gutsy). In Firefox 3 I have all my previous bookmarks, but when I bookmark something new (either in the toolbar or the menu), those new bookmarks shows OK just until I quit firefox. When I start it again, those new bookmarks are gone. But all the pages I was viewing in the moment I quit firefox reload ok and when I edit preferentes, they are persisted between restarts too. It's just only the bookmarks not being saved it seems.

Thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 22 17:57:03 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Toni Sagristà Balanzat (tonisb) wrote :
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Toni Sagristà Balanzat (tonisb) wrote :

Sorry for forgetting this, History is saved correctly too.

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boarderx1313 (boarderx13132000) wrote :

I had this exact problem. I found that changes to the bookmarks did not hold over to the next session. Weirdly enough, they would hold over if I did a bookmark backup, though (without having to import that backup).

In any case, I got tired of backing up my bookmarks any time I wanted to change them, and I couldn't find a solution posted, so here's my solution, which seems to have worked:

1) Save your bookmarks and anything you wouldn't want to lose then close firefox
2) Delete the directory .mozilla/firefox from your home directory
3) Restart firefox

This will delete all of your settings and bookmarks, but for me at least it also fixed the problem.

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nitto (nitto) wrote :

I have the same problem in ubuntu 8.10.
I tried removing places.sqlite, it recovers my bookmarks but the problem is still here.

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maximus_pr (themax-pr) wrote :

i'm having same problem it started like a week ago also when i organize the bookmarks into each folder when i restart firefox all the bookmark are out of the folder i placed them before

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nitto (nitto) wrote :

I finally solved creating a new profile from the scratch and than copying all the setting and bookmarks.
Bookmarks and saved password can be copied easily, the other setting can be set in few minutes.
In my case the problem seemed to be in the places.sqlite file but anything solved the problem but using a completely new profile.

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Ville Ranki (ville-ranki) wrote :

Happens to me too - i can only add items to bookmarks toolbar, but not remove or modify existing ones.

#317568 might be also related to this.

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Ricardo Perrone (perrone) wrote :

The same happens to me about any new bookmark in firefox 3.0.7 / ubuntu 8.10, and a new strange firefox's behaviour: all the time that firefox tries to start, it opens a full size window and i need to use F11 key to get normal size. Is it a normal behaviour in this version?

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Please run the following command and test:
firefox-3.0 --safe-mode
By the looks of your extensions this can be caused by a number of them including the cutemenus but i have seen issues with most of the ones you have installed.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Ricardo Perrone (perrone) wrote :

Thanks for the help... now firefox works fine for me

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Ville Ranki (ville-ranki) wrote :

The bug still exists. I tried editing a bookmark in safe mode, but the changes were not saved.

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bughunter (ha030-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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drew212 (mstngdrew212) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 426577, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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