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

[John Vivirito]

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Russell Nash wrote:
| 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.
|
Can everyone confirm that new profile fixes this.
As for google toolbar it has caused problems with firefox since its
conception.
Did anyone switch from ff2 to ff3 and back at all?

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Sincerely Yours,
~    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246
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Firefox 3 Beta 5 not saving normal or live bookmarks
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