486579 - new bookmarks disappear after Firefox is closed.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 486634

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Doug]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When I bookmark a website I check to see that it is there and it is but when I close Firefox and open it again the new bookmark is gone. Also when I move a bookmark up and close the bookmark tab the bookmark ends up moved back to where it was.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Bookmark a website.
2. Close Firefox
3. Open Firefox
Actual Results:  
The bookmarked website was not saved in bookmarks.

Expected Results:  
Website to be bookmarked.

This has been happening since the last version.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you use any privacy tools like CCleaner or something else ?
You have either a broken Bookmarks file or some background process is locking the file.

As first step open the bookmark manager (organize) and export your bookmarks in
a html page. Reboot your system if you didn't already do this because this
could be a temporary file locking. If you still get the problem
after rebooting you have 2 choices:

a) create a new profile but that will reset everything in Firefox but might be
easier to do
b) remove the current bookmarks/history database file.

For creating a new profile with the profile manager :
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+Profiles and create an additional,
new profile. Start Firefox with this profile (Firefox should ask at startup)
and import your bookmarks from your bookmark backup file.

for removing the existing database file locate your profile :
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/profiles#How_to_find_your_profile
there should be a file called places.sqlite , rename it to for example
places.old and start Firefox.

PS: Be sure that Firefox is closd before starting either a) or b)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I suck, i thought that bug 462366 is fixed in 1.9.0.8.

Reporter: 
Ignore comment #1 from me and "try opening about:config and set importBookmarksHTML to false."