644272 - firefox 4.0 freezes when selecting a destination folder in add bookmark dialog

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Erik.Benkler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

I want to add a bookmark via the add bookmarks dialog, e.g. accessed via the menu or by the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D. In the add bookmark dialog, I click on the drop-down combo box titled folder and select "choose" (I am not sure about the exact english phrases, since I use German language Firefox, but in the next step I woul expect to be able to select a folder). As a result, firefox freezes. This is reproducible with arbitrary URLs which I tried to add as bookmark.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open "add bookmark" dialog 
2. click on "folder" drop down combo box 
3. click on "select"
Actual Results:  
firefox freezes, has to be killed in taskmanager

Expected Results:  
provide a list of destination folders from which one is to be selected

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Is your Issue reproducible without Extensions in Safe-Mode and/or using a new Profile?
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles#Creating_a_profile

Comment 2

[Erik.Benkler]

I performed the following steps:

1) created new profile, problem was not observed using the new profile
2) started FF in safe mode, problem was not observed

After that I started again in normal mode with the old profile, and the problem was gone, although several add-ons were activated.

Many thanks for the help, I'm not sure this was actually a bug or if only something in the profile was corrupt which was fixed by the actions described above.