I had some free time today and did some 'destructive' debugging on this problem, here's what I discovered:
I closed down firefox and performed 'rm -rf .mozilla' in my home directory, effectively blowing away the entire firefox configuration. I restarted firefox and went through preferences, setting things to the way I like them. Next, I performed some testing, adding normal bookmarks and live bookmarks. The bookmarks added themselves to the bookmark menu and were still there after closing and restarting firefox, even after logging out and logging back in. In essence, the problem was solved and firefox was bookmarking like it should. I think this definitely proves that this is a configuration issue. Next, I am a very fond and extensive user of google toolbar, so that I can access my bookmarks from whatever browser I choose to use. In firefox 3b5, google's toolbar does not work, it's not compatible. Even if you disable the compatibility checking, it still refuses to download your bookmarks. I'd gotten around this by using the 'gmarks' add-on instead. I wanted to return to the exact same configuration for the purposes of this test, therefore I went ahead and re-installed gmarks. Now that gmarks was installed, I noted that the same bookmark problem was back. In gmarks options, there is an option for 'CTRL+D / CTRL+SHIFT+D support', it seems that this will basically intercept any 'add bookmark' requests, even if chosen from the bookmark menu. I disabled this option and found that I could add bookmarks and live bookmarks again with no problems. I think that the main thing we can draw from this is that there is a very high chance that the problems we are experiencing might be the fault of an add-on? It might also be useful if as well as just going through and disabling add-ons as a test, we might want to try blowing away the ~/.mozilla directory as well and starting firefox from scratch again? This bug is definitely solved for me at this point. Russ. -- Firefox 3 Beta 5 not saving normal or live bookmarks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225257 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
