[Bug 225257] Re: Firefox 3 Beta 5 not saving normal or live bookmarks

[Russell Nash]

I had some free time today and did some 'destructive' debugging on this
problem, here's what I discovered:

I closed down firefox and performed 'rm -rf .mozilla' in my home
directory, effectively blowing away the entire firefox configuration.  I
restarted firefox and went through preferences, setting things to the
way I like them.

Next, I performed some testing, adding normal bookmarks and live
bookmarks.  The bookmarks added themselves to the bookmark menu and were
still there after closing and restarting firefox, even after logging out
and logging back in.  In essence, the problem was solved and firefox was
bookmarking like it should.

I think this definitely proves that this is a configuration issue.

Next, I am a very fond and extensive user of google toolbar, so that I
can access my bookmarks from whatever browser I choose to use.  In
firefox 3b5, google's toolbar does not work, it's not compatible.  Even
if you disable the compatibility checking, it still refuses to download
your bookmarks.  I'd gotten around this by using the 'gmarks' add-on
instead.

I wanted to return to the exact same configuration for the purposes of
this test, therefore I went ahead and re-installed gmarks.  Now that
gmarks was installed, I noted that the same bookmark problem was back.

In gmarks options, there is an option for 'CTRL+D / CTRL+SHIFT+D
support', it seems that this will basically intercept any 'add bookmark'
requests, even if chosen from the bookmark menu.  I disabled this option
and found that I could add bookmarks and live bookmarks again with no
problems.

I think that the main thing we can draw from this is that there is a
very high chance that the problems we are experiencing might be the
fault of an add-on?

It might also be useful if as well as just going through and disabling
add-ons as a test, we might want to try blowing away the ~/.mozilla
directory as well and starting firefox from scratch again?

This bug is definitely solved for me at this point.

Russ.

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Firefox 3 Beta 5 not saving normal or live bookmarks
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