1589579 - vlink color does not change for latest visited links

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Places, defect)

Description

[Martin Trautmann]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2019-10-18 at 08.45.09.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Steps to reproduce:

For some weeks now visited links do not change the color any more.

But for older links the color change is still visible.

I did try to delete all history via the Preferences of "Chronik leeren", without success

I do use 60.9.0esr on MacOS 10.10.5

I do not use private browsing

Actual results:

See screenshot - all links have been visited multiple times, but only the old ones do show the visited color.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0
20191009172106

Works for me. Please do the following:

1. Enter about:support into the address bar. Scroll nearly all the way down and click the Verify Integrity button. Wait a few moments for the check to complete, then copy the entire output and paste it here.
2. Enter about:profiles into the address bar. Create a new profile, then click the Launch profile in new browser button. Does the issue occur there?
3. Does the issue occur in the latest Nightly build?

Comment 2

[Martin Trautmann]

Task: checkIntegrity

• Unable to check database integrity

Task: invalidateCaches

• The task queue was cleared by an error in another task.

Task: checkCoherence

• The task queue was cleared by an error in another task.

Task: expire

• The task queue was cleared by an error in another task.

Task: vacuum

• The task queue was cleared by an error in another task.

Task: stats

• The task queue was cleared by an error in another task.

Task: _refreshUI

• The task queue was cleared by an error in another task.

yeah, vlink does work properly within a new profile

How do I make the old profile to work again?

Comment 3

[Gingerbread Man]

::mak any suggestions here? I can't tell if the above is a problem with the places database itself or a file access error.

I would manually back up bookmarks, move places.sqlite* out of the profile folder to the desktop while Firefox isn't running, then restore the aforementioned bookmark backup. All history would be lost in the process.

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

What is "Chronik leeren"?, I don't speak your language, sorry. Is it a third party tool, or a Firefox option window, or an add-on?
Off-hand it looks like something is keeping the places.sqlite database busy, or is corrupting it. If you are using third party software to cleanup Firefox, I suggest to stop doing that, it's the easiest way to break Firefox.

You can surely recover a working Firefox as comment 3 explains, there isn't much more we can do if a third party was involved.
Please let us know.

Comment 5

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] from comment #4)

What is "Chronik leeren"?

"Clear History" in German.
https://pontoon.mozilla.org/translate/de/firefox/all-resources/?string=177697

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Ok, then it's the internal Clear Recent History dialog, thanks.

We saw a case in the past where a third party software on Mac (I don't recall exactly it was named Cookies or Cookie something) was periodically trying to clear history and by doing that it was disallowing us from accessing our own db.
So the first thing is to check you don't have any software installed that may be touching Firefox profile files.

Then unfortunately you still may have to do what comment 3 suggested. Losing history is a pity, but once a db is completely unusable we can't do much. Sqlite has a command line util (sqlite3) with a .recover command, that one may try to use, but I honestly wouldn't bet it will be able to rebuild a usable database for Firefox. It would allow to query the old data and extract it for recovery purposes.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Martin, did you see the previous comments? Any updates?

Comment 8

[Martin Trautmann]

Thanks for the reminder.

Con: there was no fix for the corrupted history files
Pro: the suggestion solution with a new profile did work. I was able to save both bookmarks and passwords from the old profile

Comment 9

[Martin Trautmann]

So how do I close it now or mark it as fixed?

Comment 10

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I can do it. Thanks.