321657 - bookmarks importing or adding does not save

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 319196

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[David Brannam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

New 1.5 install in new Win 2000. I try to import my former bookmarks.html from my prior firefox install in ff's Bookmarks manager using import from file. The bookmarks are considered temporary for the session. A restart goes back to the installed ff bookmarks (only). 
I also browsed and bookmarked several sites to the toolbar. They too disappear after the ff session. 
I also imported the same old bookmarks into IE. Then I used the "ff import from IE" . Again the bookmarks are available only for the current Firefox session.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.import bookmarks
2. close Firefox
3. restart firefox

Actual Results:  
The imported bookmarks do not appear in the new session of Firefox 1.5.

Expected Results:  
I should see the imported bookmarks in firefox's new session.

I saved individual visited sites to the bookmark toolbar. They too disappear when I close firefox.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

WFM. I see bookmarks.html and bookmarks.bak appear in my profile with Firefox still running after using the bookmarks manager > Import function. 

Comment 2

[David Brannam]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111
> Firefox/1.5
> WFM. I see bookmarks.html and bookmarks.bak appear in my profile with Firefox
> still running after using the bookmarks manager > Import function. 
I see bookmarks.html.moztmp with my changes in it. It was not made into a bookmarks.html --David Brannam

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Please see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_not_saved

Comment 4

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

Carsten- I'm not sure how this is a dupe of 319196.