1230123 - Live Bookmarks died, appearing as normal folders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1190131

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

I've had a fair number of "Live Bookmarks" (RSS feeds) in my bookmarks menu since forever. A while ago (~2 months, at a guess) these started coming up as just (Empty). 

I initially suspected this might be a side effect of Sync revisions, but I've just noticed I can't add new ones (and hence replace the broken ones) either.

STR:
1) http://rss.slashdot.org/slashdot/slashdotMain?format=xml or
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tweakers/mixed
2) Subscribe to this feed using [Live Bookmarks]
3) Click "Subscribe Now"


Expected result: Live Bookmark for site gets added...somewhere.

Observed result: Action has no effect whatsoever.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

So this is 2 bugs?
The first one, empty livemarks, is so far unknown, I didn't see other reports.

The latter, being unable to add new ones, just sounds like e10s bug 1109714.

Comment 2

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Yes. It wasn't clear to me whether both behaviors were the manifestation of one bug or not. Seems like not.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

may you please try adding livemarks in a non-e10s window, and then check if they work properly in the bookmarks views?

Comment 4

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Yes, that works. I'm re-adding now and will keep an eye if they go "dead" again.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Off-hand the fact they appear as normal folders means they lost their "feedURI" annotation. It's unlikely for Places code itself to remove annotations, that can only point out to either a database corruption or Sync issues.
Considered it's just livemarks and it happened suddenly to all of them, I'd likely point to a Sync issue...

Comment 6

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

I concur (see also comment 0). Feel free to change component if appropriate.

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

yep, unfortunately it may be very hard to figure out what happened without Sync logs, and if this happened time ago, it's unlikely anything can happen. moving just to notify people in Sync this may have happened.

Comment 8

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Sounds like a dupe of Bug 1190131. Take a look, gcp?

Comment 9

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp]]

Sounds likely, although all my systems (including those with years-old Firefox installs) were affected. I guess that bug could cause Sync to update the old system with the "new" bookmarks that were actually corrupted copies of its originals? If that sounds possible then feel free to dupe this.

Comment 10

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

(In reply to Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp] from comment #9)
> I guess that bug could cause Sync to update
> the old system with the "new" bookmarks that were actually corrupted copies
> of its originals? If that sounds possible then feel free to dupe this.

Sadly, that probably exactly what happened :(