1857876 - Errativ behavior of saved bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[quadronom]

Attachment: weird_foldername.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/118.0

Steps to reproduce:

In short: My bookmarks are being shuffled around randomly.

This is manifesting in several ways:

• I have my bookmark bar always visible, sometimes the order is mixed up and bookmarks are in the wrong place. Never all at once, it's just one here and there.
• Some bookmarks will be relocated to other places.
• Some bookmarks will be collected in a weird folder with literal "[Folder Name]" (Ordnername, german, its localized) in its title.
• Some bookmarks are being duplicated.
• Some bookmarks seem to be deleted, too (?), but I'm not 100% certain about that.

This all started a few versions back after an upgrade. Sadly I forgot which one. It got gradually worse however. Maybe a corruption of the bookmarks database?

I know that this one will be hard to debug or find the root cause, but I think it's still needed to file the bug.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Bookmarks & History' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

It sounds like a case of data corruption being brought on, I'd suggest to run the Integrity Check from the Places Database section of about:support. And then check if the problem continues for a few weeks.

I suppose you are also synchronizing bookmarks with other devices?
Is your Firefox crashing often?

Comment 3

[quadronom]

Attachment: integrity_output

Hi Marco, thank you for the answer.

I have run the integrity check, this was the output:

Comment 4

[quadronom]

Attachment: integrity_output.txt

Hi Marco, thank you for the answer.
No, I only sync to whats formerly knows as weave, so the Firefox account thingy.

I have run the integrity check, uploaded the output.
I will monitor the situation.

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to quadronom from comment #4)

I will monitor the situation.

Hello, any news?