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** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Confirmed
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I just had this yet again when we had a power failure. I use an NFS home dir,
which houses the profile.
Ubuntu 9.04 with Ubuntu supplied Firefox 3.0.13
To fix it, I tried the method listed above of copying the profile and
pointing the profiles.ini to the new dir. I used cp -a as myself (not
check out this site:
https://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/wiki/MacDesktopProblems#Firefox_Problems
Firefox Problems
Disappearing Bookmarks
If Firefox crashes, you may appear to lose your bookmarks. Starting with
Firefox 3, automatic backups of your bookmarks are created automatically, so
one fix
Just happened with me; Ubuntu 8.10 + Firefox 3.08. BTW, I did previously
try to run sudo firefox. Normally this would start another Firefox,
3.1b3, which is installed for root user, but that time 3.08 started.
When I later tried to run Firefox as normal user, all the bookmarks were
gone and FF
Please look for this bug upstream, This is more of an upgrade corrupting
profile by the sounds of it but there should still be an upstream bug
report.
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This does not seem to be Ubuntu related as it has occurred to 3
different people at work on Fedora 9 and 10. Copying the profile
directory to a new name worked in these cases. It has occurred on
Firefox 3.06 also.
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This is still occurring. Ubuntu 8.04 Firefox 3.05. Had error message along with
same symptoms above. However,
addon session manager worked, and I could easily navigate to search. Found the
suggestion: 'sudo chown -R myusername.myusername .mozilla/firefox' which
worked. For us noobs, just
Michael Bell wrote:
I have the same problem. Solved it by changing
StartWithLastProfile=1
to
StartWithLastProfile=0
in profiles.ini
when you see this, maybe removing localstore.rdf in your profile before
starting firefox helps?
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I have the same problem. Solved it by changing
StartWithLastProfile=1
to
StartWithLastProfile=0
in profiles.ini
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...also, I'm NOT using AdBlock Plus (I saw somebody complained about
this)
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Happened to me today as well.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510
Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3
Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD64 Desktop Linux set 2.6.24-21-generic
No bookmarks, empty bookmark bar, and any attempt to restore it (form
firefox backup or JSON file)
are you using NFS for your home or even more?
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Same behavior for me, under ubuntu 8.04 AMD64, firefox 3.03, history,
bookmarks were gone.
Solved by renaming profile folder and changing profile.ini.
Juan
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It seems to have disappeared for me too (firefox 3.0.3 Ubuntu).
I could reproduce it by killing my X server with an open firefox in it.
Not anymore.
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I have been experiencing the same problem.
I keep my profile on an SMB file share so I can sometimes run Firefox
from Windows XP and sometimes from Ubuntu. When it occurs under Ubuntu,
I can repair it by running Firefox instead from Windows XP and
immediately exiting. When I open it under
Unfortunately, I just had this happen again this weekend, so it appears
that the bug is not fixed. I copied the old profile and edited
profiles.ini as indicated above, and everything worked with the new
profile. However, I immediately shut down Firefox and tried to run it
using the original (now
Has any of you run firefox with sudo or su?
I was not running firefox as root (I used the Applications menu), and
none of the files in my profile folder are/were owned by root.
Does johnbenders fix everyones, btw the easiest way to tesst this is to
try with new profile
I'm not sure if the
On that note, it may be that this bug is already fixed. I edited
'profiles.ini' again and tried running with my old (previously broken)
profile.
It started up with no problem, which it would not a month ago, so maybe one
of the recent updates has fixed this issue... without
changing my
Christian Gunning wrote:
I tried JohnBender's suggestion, and noticed that a bunch of files were
owned by root. Is there any reason they should be owned by root? On a
whim, I found that the following solved all the problems described
above:
sudo chown -R myusername.myusername
I tried JohnBender's suggestion, and noticed that a bunch of files were
owned by root. Is there any reason they should be owned by root? On a
whim, I found that the following solved all the problems described
above:
sudo chown -R myusername.myusername .mozilla/firefox
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JohnBender, i was wondering how you did that? im okay generally with computors
and can fix minor problems but i have no idea what you're talking about
filename replacing -wise.. i can't even find that folder or whatnot.. could you
please explain?
perhaps i should just go back to firefox2
btw to anyone else, to find the folder on vista search
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\
into the windows search folder
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okay i found the location through some serious googling, but copy what old
folder? is this some back-up you made?
i have some json files one of which is possibly before they all disappeared but
i don't know what to do
i can't believe this happened, i'd prefer firefox not have bookmarks than have
I had the same problem today, but I found an easier workaround. I simply
copied the old profile folder (~/.mozilla/firefox/xyz.default) in its
entirety to the same location with a new name
(~/.mozilla/firefox/foobar). Then I edited the 'profiles.ini' file
(located in ~/.mozilla/firefox) and
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