My bookmarks have disappeared in firefox 3.5 ,installed using ubuntuzilla,after i installed bbciplayer.I have no back or forward buttons and no history is recorded.When i open in terminal everything is ok any help would be appreciated
Firefox not loadng bookmarks
Archived thread 1235447 from Ubuntuzilla. Markdown source: Ubuntuzilla/thread_1235447_Firefox_not_loadng_bookmarks.md
I suggest you make a backup of your bookmarks next time. See attached file.
Reinstall Firefox.
when i start firefox as root i have my bookmarks .It's not just bookmarks it gives a warning that another application is using the bookmarks folder and i also can't download or move back and forth between pages.
Hi if things work as root but not as user, that's an indication that the ownership of some files in your profile is messed up. try this tip from the ubuntuzilla faq:
khelben1979 said: I suggest you make a backup of your bookmarks next time. See attached file.
Reinstall Firefox.
ubuntuzilla automatically makes a profile backup. so if it comes to that, he's covered. :)
thx nanotube that seemed to work .I think i used sudo intead of gksudo to run from terminal.
mick222 said: thx nanotube that seemed to work .I think i used sudo intead of gksudo to run from terminal.
glad it worked. :)
The same thing has just happened to me. I returned to Ubuntu after playing a session of Rome:TW in Windoze, only to discover that Firefox's Bookmarks panel was completely empty. Everything had been fine in Windoze so I returned there to verify the fact and all was, indeed, well over there. (I had better explain that my two Firefoxes both use the same store.)
Back in Ubuntu, when I had a look at* ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini* and tried to save it, I was advised that the file couldn't be saved because there wasn't enough disc space. Huh?
When I checked, however, Ubuntu was correct and there was only 8k available. I had recently been doing a bit of downloading and I had unwittingly stuffed 14GB in to the Deleted items folder and used up very nearly every last byte of Ubuntu's disc space. Anyway, after I emptied Trash and restarted Firefox, there were my bookmarks!
So, if your Firefox bookmarks disappear, try emptying Trash.