412071 - Bookmarks Disappear After Firefox Crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193749

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Tim Semotan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

Firefox will occasionally crash on closing, causing an automatic system reboot; or else a system hang and manual reboot.

When system and Firefox is restarted, there are no bookmarks and Firefox acts like a fresh install.

There is no system message or trace file created during the crash to my knowledge.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Cannot be reproduced at will
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Actual Results:  
N/A

Expected Results:  
N/A

I see no option to export bookmarks for safekeeping.  Does one simply copy the folder somewhere?  The import function is only for IE bookmarks.  How can I safeguard my bookmarks and startup tab configuration?

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Well, there are bookmark backups stored in your profile: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks 
It is always wise to backup all valuable data including bookmarks by making a simple copy of the profile folder Mozilla: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder
The links are timing out at the moment.
And you can export only bookmarks in Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks -> File -> Export.
 

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

duping to bug 193749
IF you have questions ask on irc or http://support.mozilla.com

If you want to report a bug (and no support question) then please search before you file a bug.

The whole bookmark backend will be changed in Firefox3.0 to a sqlite database, that means that this is already fixed.