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Can no longer open bookmarks at bottom of page

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Bookmarks at bottom of page are blocked by grey dialog box that pops up over bookmark at first click, and no way to double click to open after it's covered. I really hate change that breaks stuff that worked fine before. STOP DOING THAT. ALSO, for a while, I had NO dates with my bookmarks. What's up with that?

Bookmarks at bottom of page are blocked by grey dialog box that pops up over bookmark at first click, and no way to double click to open after it's covered. I really hate change that breaks stuff that worked fine before. STOP DOING THAT. ALSO, for a while, I had NO dates with my bookmarks. What's up with that?

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Try the Firefox version from the official Mozilla server if you currently use a version from the repositories of your Linux distribution.

You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database (bookmarks and history) in the Firefox profile folder.

  • use "Verify Integrity" on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page
    in case errors are reported close and restart Firefox and retry

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If "Verify Integrity" on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page cannot repair places.sqlite then remove all places.sqlite files in the Firefox profile folder. Firefox will rebuild places.sqlite and restore the bookmarks from a recent JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder.

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Can you attach a screenshot?


Try the Firefox version from the official Mozilla server if you currently use a version from the repositories of your Linux distribution.

You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database (bookmarks and history) in the Firefox profile folder.

  • use "Verify Integrity" on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page
    in case errors are reported close and restart Firefox and retry

See also:

If "Verify Integrity" on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page cannot repair places.sqlite then remove all places.sqlite files in the Firefox profile folder. Firefox will rebuild places.sqlite and restore the bookmarks from a recent JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder.