346313 - hundreds of backup bookmark files in profile

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 294584

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Joachim Noreiko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060723 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060723 Firefox/1.5.0.5

In my profile folder I have several hundred files called:

Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.hmb/bookmarks-xxx.html

where xxx is a number from 1 to 347.
The last modified date of each file matches its creation date.
The first one was created 25 May 2005. The most recent today.
Together they take up about 150MB.

(Is it safe to delete them, btw?)


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Using any extensions? The only backups we create are in bookmarkbackups/, and those should only date back a week.

Comment 2

[Joachim Noreiko]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Using any extensions? The only backups we create are in bookmarkbackups/, and
> those should only date back a week.

I was, but I have removed all extensions except Talkback (1.5.0.5) and 'View Rendered Source Chart' which Firefox has disabled because of incompatibility (and this means the uninstall button is greyed out) -- the problem still occurs.

I have observed that the new bookmark file is created when I quit firefox.
Each one is an exact copy of my bookmarks.html file in the same folder.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

What is the browser.bookmarks.max_backups preference set to?

Comment 4

[Joachim Noreiko]

I don't see that preference listed in about:config.
Starting with browser.bookmarks, there is only:

browser.bookmarks.added_static_root
browser.bookmarks.sort.direction
browser.bookmarks.sort.resource

Filtering on 'backup' or 'max' gives no results.

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 294584 ***