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Why won't Firefox 3.05 allow me to create new bookmarks anymore?

Asked by george_rutkay

I've made no system changes, added nothing. I noticed that Firefox will not allow me to bookmark anything new.

I even deliberately deleted bookmarks, wondering if I have too many, hoping this would solve it. Nope. Still Firefox will not let me add any new bookmarks.

No error messages occur. It just does not respond when I do Ctrl D or use the mouse.

Does anyone else have this problem? It seems to have occurred only just very recently.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Clean firefox mozilla profile

Close all opened Firefox and try to delete your Firefox user setting open a terminal from applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
mv .mozilla .mozilla_old
and restart Firefox.

Also take note of your installed Firefox extensions, you will need to reinstall them.

if this works then delete the .mozilla_old directory, from terminal, type:
rm -fr .mozilla_old

hope this helps

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#2

When I tried this I found that Firefox was unable to import my backup of my bookmarks. It simply said it could not process the file, no other explanation given!

Also I still could not bookmark any websites into a new profile.

I was only able to reaccess this site because it's in my old profile, which I re-enabled.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

Very strange... try to completely reinstall firefox...

Open a terminal from applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

mv .mozilla .mozilla_old
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install firefox-3.0

hope this helps

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#4

Sorry, unsuccessful. I received the same results as my previous attempt. I couldn't import any backups of bookmarks and I couldn't add any new ones.

It certainly cannot be a lack of disk space, there is still over 26 gig available in the /home partition.

Could it be a bug or a virus? What should I look for?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Can you put the result of this terminal command:

 ls -la $HOME | grep -i .mozilla

Thank you

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#6

geo@Dell1:~$ ls -la $HOME | grep -i .mozilla
drwxrwx--- 4 geo geo 4096 2008-12-28 22:05 .mozilla
-rw-rw---- 1 geo geo 30220 2008-11-10 15:06 mozilla.ps

What does the above mean? What does it translate to?

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#7

I ended up reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling the system. it was just too silly and becoming a career change to pursue.