646133 - Bookmarks are gone and there is no ability to add a new one after private browsing.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Kirill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

After "Private Browsing" my bookmarks are lost. There are nothing on the panel. I've tried to restore them - no effect. Strange thing, when I export them to JSON, I can see them inside the file. So they are still persist but are not visible/usable. And I can't do anything with bookmarks bar (e.g. add new bookmarks).

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start private browsing.
2. Go to some website.
3. Close private browsing.

Comment 1

[Srinivas]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110329 Firefox/4.2a1pre

Works fine for me. Please try if you can reproduce it or if it works fine

1.in safe mode. 
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

2.or by creating a new profile
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles#Creating_a_profile.

Comment 2

[Kirill]

I've done some tests and found that source of the problem was in places.sqlite.
If I delete this file, all works fine (but I loose my history...). But I gave this file to MAC OS user with FF and there it worked fine. I just synced it back.

I'll try to reproduce it in few days.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

places.sqlite has nothing to do with the issue, it's the file that contains your bookmarks and history.
Most likely you have an add-on that causes bookmarks to disappear from the UI.

Comment 4

[Kirill]

Nope. There were no changes in addons. I've rechecked it in first place. Nothing that can harm this.

If i delete places.sqlite and start Firefox again problem seems resolved - I can add new bookmarks, import/export them, etc. With old one I can do nothing.
I don't know what caused corruption (but other PC was able to use this file).

Ok, as I said earlier, I will try to reproduce it and report.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

So, in safe mode, as requested in comment 1, you CAN reproduce the bug?

Comment 6

[Kirill]

In first comment you suggest me to create new profile. I can say definitely that it will resolve problem since it will be new profile directory and new places.sqlite and all other files.

Now my profile is alright (comment 2) and I can't reproduce it now.
Case may be closed.