Bookmarks not saved – Firefox 3

August 13, 2008 by Bambit
Filed under: Techstuff 

Was all very happy with my Firefox 3 upgrade, and had also installed Mozbackup to make sure I retained my bookmarks from the previous version.

But as days went on I slowly realized something was wrong. My bookmarks were not saving.

Oh they’d still go to the bookmarks dropdown, viewable when I check right after I bookmark them, but after I’ve closed Firefox and reopened the browser, the new bookmarks were gone, just like I never put them there.

Enter Google the almighty. I entered “bookmarks do not save firefox 3″ and tried suggested solutions such as making sure that the places.sqlite file which you can find in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ is not marked as readonly on your Windows machine. But all files stated were not readonly and this solution did not work for me.

Then I found this link to Mozillazine. It reminded me of something I hadn’t touched since upgrading to Firefox 3 — about.config.

Typing about:config (thank you Alex for the sharp eyes) into the address bar in Firefox brings up its configuration window, pretty much like Windows regedit, only for Firefox. From there I typed “browser.places” (without the quotes) in the filter bar. The result looked like this:

about:config

Now I did what the Mozillazine article instructed and right clicked on each result. From the flyout I selected “Reset”. Did that right down the list of four results.

user reset

Then I closed about:config and tried to save a bookmark again. Sure enough, it was saved where I put it, and when I restarted Firefox the bookmark was still there.

Problem solved. Now, if you also happen to be looking for Mac memory, here’s one of the best places to go.

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7 Comments on Bookmarks not saved – Firefox 3

  1. tin on Sun, 31st Aug 2008 10:21 pm

    2. you saved the day!! i followed this to a T and it worked! buti na lang i’m subscribed to your feeds and remembered this. thank you, thank you!!

    i like your current LO. it’s so neat! :)

    tin’s last blog post: [LP] Ayaw Ko (I Don’t Like)

  2. Alex on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 4:39 am

    3. I am also experiencing this problem.

    However I cannot get firefox to open about.config

    every time i enter that address it auto adds the http://www and .com/ and then gives the address not found error page.

    I’m working on a PC is there something i’m doing different or wrong?

  3. Alex on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 4:50 am

    4. I got it via the link to mozillazine. (the problem was I used a . instead of : which i think youve made the mistake of typing in your article.)

    I appreciate the article though, it really helped me sort the problem

  4. Bambit on Wed, 10th Sep 2008 7:43 am

    5. Hey Tin, glad I could help

    Alex, thanks very much for the sharp eyes — I have edited the post with the corrected format about:config

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  6. Jonny on Thu, 22nd Jan 2009 6:22 am

    7. Thanks, I’ve just had this problem, and this solved it for me too (also found the mozilla link).

  7. Make a website on Sat, 30th May 2009 7:00 am

    8. Thanks for posting this — I so needed it! Michael

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