Sunday, May 17, 2009

Bookmarks can't be saved in Firefox 3

Thank you to Rob from Holland who (not only donated to BleachBit but) reported this bug. When deleting the Places database in Firefox version 3 using BleachBit 0.4.2, it's not possible to save new bookmarks. The bookmarks disappear when Firefox is restarted.

A Mozilla knowledge base article gives the solution. If you suffer this bug in BleachBit 0.4.2, close Firefox and run this command:

rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/bookmarkbackups/*json

The explanation: Firefox tries to reconstruct the missing places.sqlite file from the JSON backups.

The fix is applied for BleachBit 0.5.0. For older versions, you may apply this patch [link broken].

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4 comments:

  1. juancarlospacoMay 23, 2009 at 1:57 AM

    Nice,
    you are the same of OpenOffice Ninja! OMG!
    i been reading this site time to time,
    i want ogltransitions.deb for OO.org 3!

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  2. Andrew ZMay 23, 2009 at 8:39 AM

    juancarlospaco: Yes, guilty as charged! Have you tried 'apt-get install openoffice.org-ogltrans'?

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  3. Uwe Vogt [aka JaDa]May 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM

    Bookmarks can't be saved with Version 0.5.0
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042700 SUSE/3.0.10-1.1.1 Firefox/3.0.10

    Now it removes also the old bookmarks what have bean saved before.

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  4. Andrew ZJune 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM

    Uwe: I'm not sure what you mean. If you tell BleachBit to delete 'Places,' it clearly states the intention is to delete bookmarks.

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