Bookmark manager locks up - impossible to organize my bookmarks
What it says - whenever I try to manage my bookmarks, move them, add them, any access at all, the bookmark manager will lock up for minutes at a time. Sometimes switching focus back to the browser and then back to the manager will free it up, but sometimes it won't. Often I have to totally close it and reopen it to continue to work on my bookmarks. It has become unusable at this point - my bookmarks are in an awful state because I can't do a thing to organize them.
Starting in safe mode with all plugins disabled does not improve this behavior.
Firefox sync is disabled. I have checked in bugzilla and found similar complaints, none of which seem to have been resolved. Bugzilla #s 714098, 718309, 711372, 755669 though that last says Firefox Sync is enabled (it is disabled on my system because it caused so many problems when it was initiated)
I ran places-maintenance as recommended in 711372, it did not improve nor did it seem to find any problems I have rebuilt the pertinent db I have deleted all bookmarks and restored from Xmarks I went straight from 3.6.28 (or whatever the last version of 3.x was) to FF 11; I did not experience this problem until I installed FF 11 and it does not in fact occur on my laptop that still has 3.6.xx on it. I DO have a LOT of tags, also a lot of bookmarks
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Problems with bookmarks and history not working properly can be caused by a corrupted places.sqlite database file.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
You can try to check and repair the places database with this extension:
I've done that. THREE TIMES in fact. It keeps telling me my db is sane, etc.
No help, nor was it of any help in the other reported bugs in bugzilla where it was tried.
From my original problem report:
"I ran places-maintenance as recommended in 711372, it did not improve nor did it seem to find any problems I have rebuilt the pertinent db I have deleted all bookmarks and restored from Xmarks"
Modified by ZenSojourner
You may have corrupted bookmarks caused by restoring via Xmarks.
Don't you have a JSON backup to restore the bookmarks from?
I have done the JSON thing as well, it made no difference. Also, if Xmarks is corrupted then explain to me why I DO NOT have this problem on my 3.6.xx machine.
Also the problem existed BEFORE I tried to restore from Xmarks. Also, if my DB is corrupted, then why would Place_Maintenance keep telling me it is fine?
This started when I upgraded from 3.6.whatever the last version was, to FF 11. It's related to FF 11 or some change that happened from 4 on. Have you looked at the multiple bugzilla reports on this? I listed several, I"m sure there are more to be found.
Modified by ZenSojourner
Maybe I'm posting in the wrong place - am I talking to a programmer or a volunteer? Should I have gone straight to Bugzilla? Because it seems like my initial explanation was not read, also the "solutions" being offered are not solutions, they are the same stab-in-the-dark processes I've already gone through.
This has been going on for months, my bookmarks are a mess at this point because I can't do anything with them. I have to admit I'm getting more than slightly frustrated.
Hallo hallo - should I escalate this to Bugzilla? Or is that where I should have started in the first place? Is this a support forum staffed by paid employees, or volunteers?
Not sure what this place is for ...
Still no response - I guess I have to file a new ticket
Does it work if you delete places.sqlite and start without restoring the bookmarks as a test?
Did you try to restore the bookmarks from a JSON backup instead of using Xmarks.
I repeat:
Starting in safe mode with all plugins disabled does not improve this behavior.
Firefox sync is disabled. I have checked in bugzilla and found similar complaints, none of which seem to have been resolved. Bugzilla #s 714098, 718309, 711372, 755669 though that last says Firefox Sync is enabled (it is disabled on my system because it caused so many problems when it was initiated)
I ran places-maintenance as recommended in 711372, it did not improve nor did it seem to find any problems I have rebuilt the pertinent db I have deleted all bookmarks and restored from Xmarks I went straight from 3.6.28 (or whatever the last version of 3.x was) to FF 11; I did not experience this problem until I installed FF 11 and it does not in fact occur on my laptop that still has 3.6.xx on it. I DO have a LOT of tags, also a lot of bookmarks
Also
I have done the JSON thing as well, it made no difference.
This is why I started another thread. At this point FF13 installed itself against my will and totally broke FF. I had to totally uninstall FF altogether. I stripped it totally. uninstalling left a lot of crap on my machine despite my telling it NOT to save prefs, etc. There was a LOT of stuff I had to delete by hand.
At this point I have lost all my passwords, which is much worse than the problem I started with. In conversation with other users it appears that repeated use of Places Maintenance has been known to corrupt the user database/profile so badly that people have had to start from scratch like this before.
Right now I have FF13 installed with only adblock plus and Ghostery. bookmarks have been restored from Xmarks. I've been spending most of my time trying to recover my passwords. So I can't say what the BM is or is not doing at this point.
It was the involuntary installation of FF13 that appears to have been the stick that broke the camels back. There is no doubt there was something wrong with one or more of the DBs or the profile, and given that FF uninstall was leaving prefs and a lot of other files despite having been told to delete EVERYTHING means that previous uninstall/reinstalls were not clean. At this point my primary concern is trying to get my passwords back. I didn't even have a chance to try to back anything up; I clicked "check for updates" just to CHECK, and instead of checking, it took off and did the install. I lost everything except what was backed up on Xmarks.