554318 - Drag-n-drop bookmarks does not save them.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ajai Khattri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 FirePHP/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 FirePHP/0.4

I used to be able to drag a URL to a folder on the bookmarks bar and save into a folder. This behavior has stopped working for some reason. If I click the folder, I see my bookmarks but if I use the organize bookmarks function, the new bookmarks I added are not there. I tried closing and restarting the browser and the bookmarks I added are gone. Maybe a file permissions problem?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag bookmark into a folder on the bookmarks bar.
2. Go into Bookmarks -> Organize bookmarks...
3. Check for the new bookmarks that were just added.
Actual Results:  
No new bookmarks have been added so they dont show up in the organizer but they DO show up in the folder I added them to (unless I restart the browser, then they disappear).

Expected Results:  
I should see my bookmarks, I should be able to see them in the organizer and they should persist across browser restarts.

Im attaching screenshots, showing how my bookmarks folder looked like. And a second showing what's shown in the organizer during the same session.

Comment 1

[Ajai Khattri]

Attachment: Bookmarks folder opened from the bookmarks bar.

Comment 2

[Ajai Khattri]

Attachment: Bookmarks organizer showing empty folder.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Have you first tried Safe Mode? http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
it could indeed due to an extension conflict.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

also, does the same work on 3.6.0?

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

do you see any error in the Error Console when you drag in the folder?

Comment 6

[Ajai Khattri]

Where do I enable the error console?

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Tools / Error Console

Comment 8

[Ajai Khattri]

This is weird: I restarted in Safe Mode and I saw my bookmarks. Furthermore, I quit and restarted normally and the bookmarks are there. I dont know what fixed. I *did* upgrade to 3.6.2 before I filed this bug because I was still seeing the issue (The upgrade had problems overwriting some files so I wiped the app and started over).

Seems to be working now - guess you can close this ticket out.

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

some weird add-on compatibility issue i guess.