512140 - upgraded to 3.5.2 and Bookmarks switched to ones from approx. one year ago

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 510583

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[hnorthrup]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

After upgrading to latest Firefox version 3.5.2 from 3.5, my Bookmarks that are available are ones that I had approximately one year ago. So I lost all new Bookmarks that I've added since then and now have Bookmarks returned that I've deleted since one year ago. My last HTML Export backup was from one month ago, so I was able to Import those, but lost all news Bookmarks added since then.

Reproducible: Didn't try




The software upgrade to 3.5.2 should have retained my current set of Bookmarks as it has done in every previous upgrade since I first installed Firefox (at version 0.9 or so).

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Maybe the backups in the folder bookmarkbackups contain more recent bookmarks?

Comment 2

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Firefox automatically and periodically backs up your bookmarks.  See the Restoring bookmark backups section at http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Lost+Bookmarks for help on restoring them.

Can you type about:config into the location bar, click OK, type browser.places.importBookmarksHTML into the filter box, and report the value?

Comment 3

[hnorthrup]

I'm not so concerned about searching for my lost bookmarks any more--I'm just trying to report what happened so it doesn't happen again or to anyone else.

Sure, the value for browser.places.importBookmarks is:

status: user set
type: boolean
value: true

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

if browser.places.importBookmarksHTML (not importBookmarks, that is a not supported option) is true, after a browser run it should be set to false, otherwise there is probably something bad in your html file.

Comment 5

[hnorthrup]

I have no idea what that last comment from Marco Bonardo means. I've spent the last 30 years in computer hardware, not software. :-|

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

you talked about browser.places.importBookmarks, did you mean browser.places.importBookmarksHTML?

Comment 7

[hnorthrup]

Yes, I copied and pasted browser.places.importBookmarksHTML into about:config and listed its values (but didn't put that HTML part on the end). 
So what does this mean: "after a browser run it should be set to false, otherwise there is probably something bad in your html file." Does that mean there's something wrong with ver. 3.5.2 because that's all that changed and brought back my old bookmarks from about a year ago?