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Firefox Bookmarking

Asked by Miro Glavić

I am currently working with the following configuration: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5, and experiencing problem while attempting to bookmark a web page. When I click on 'Bookmarks' and the applet appears I can't scroll through folders to select where to save the particular page. Scroll bar itself is moving but the selection is not.
I have been using Ubuntu/Firefox for over a year and this is totally new problem.
Can someone help me figure it out, please?
Thank you.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You could try renaming ~/.mozilla

Then relaunch the app, if it is ok then your profile is faulty, you can then either:

rename back and try and diagnose the issue with the profile
or
stick with the new profile and rebuild

If its NOT good and still has the issue it is a bug

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Miro Glavić (klek) said : 		#2

Thank you for your quick response, but I did not understand any of it. You see, I am not a programmer and have no idea how to 'rename' and 'diagnose the profile' or 'rebuild'.
Would you be kind enough to give me little bit more of info on how to do these things? Is it all done within Terminal, and if it is, could you specify command lines, please?
Thanks again.

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Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh) said : 		#3

Translation ;-)

Open a Terminal and type the following command:

mv .mozilla .mozilla.old (it will rename your folder ".mozilla" to ".mozilla.old", this is the folder that hold your profile)

Start Firefox (from the menu, for instance), it will create a "new" .mozilla folder (as it does not found one), which makes for you a new profile. If bookmarking works correct, it means your old profile was faulty, not the application.

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Miro Glavić (klek) said : 		#4

Excellent translation, thank you :-)
I did all that but new bookmarking is not working; In the meantime I discovered there is bug report # 467293 on this issue.
Now, my problem is how to get back to my original ".mozilla" folder? That's where all my settings and bookmarks are.
Can you help, please?
Thank you.

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Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh) said : 		#5

You can do:

rm -rf .mozilla (to delete the actual 'new' .mozilla folder auto-created by Firefox)

then

mv .mozilla.old .mozilla (to rename back the original Firefox folder)

I think to be sure, shut down Firefox before doing tehse commands

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Miro Glavić (klek) said : 		#6

Thanks Vu Do Quynh.
I tried your instructions and got reply: "...no such folder, or directory..."
What now?

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Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh) said : 		#7

After which command ?

Can you paste the output of the following command :

ls -la | grep mozilla

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Miro Glavić (klek) said : 		#8

After the second one.
Here is the result of your command:
drwx------ 4 miro miro 4096 2009-11-12 23:15 .mozilla

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Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh) said : 		#9

OK.

It means thete is now only on .mozilla directory in your home folder.

Hopefully it is your old .mozilla (which was renamed as .mozilla.old, then renamed back to .mozilla)

So can you find back your bookmarks when you open Firefox ?

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Miro Glavić (klek) said : 		#10

Well, if that's what it is than I have only one choice left: starting it from zero. Version that opens up is completely blank.
Thank you for all your help Vu Do Quynh.
I am now closing this question.