472011 - Bookmark changes are undone when firefox restarts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 464486

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

Delete, add, change the name of a bookmark, restart firefox, presto your changes are gone and you get what you had before.  I spent hours updating my bookmarks and firefox crashed and to my delight all my changes were undone.

I verified this at least 20 times.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
delete a book mark restart Firefox it is back.
add a bookmark restart and it is not there.
change the name of a bookmark and restart Firefox and the old name is back.

Expected Results:  
Before all my changes were saved, I expected all my changes to be saved. Otherwise what is the purpose if your bookmarks cannot be changed?

I lost hours of work that is very critical to me.

Also if the bookmarks will never work again I will delete Firefox permanently and I am certain many others will also so it should be critical to you.

Comment 1

[Steve]

Any time you restart firefox the bookmarks return to what they were before.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

If you expect help here then you are at the wrong place, please use http://support.mozilla.com for that.

try http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#Changes_are_lost_whenever_you_restart_Firefox

If that doesn't help ask in the support area for help