479928 - New bookmarks lost when closing Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[davekram]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Firefox/3.0.5 & 3.0.6  Windows Vista Basic

Old Bookmarks (prior to 01/10/2009) are still there. But if you add a new one it will only stay until you close Firefox, when you restart Firefox any new ones are gone.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.SEE ABOVE
2.Add any new Bookmark
3.
Actual Results:  
SEE DETAILS


  Reinstalled Firefox 3 times including a new download.
  Reloaded Vista to an earlier time, twice.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

open about:config, look for importBookmarksHTML, if it's true set it to false.
Report results here please.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

could be a dupe of bug 462366 or real db corruption, since we didn't get enough informations to debug, this ends up being incomplete

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv