Re: Upgrade to latest firefox deleted all my bookmarks

[Dominique Dumont <domi@komarr.grenoble.hp.com>]

Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> writes:

> After I have fixed this by sudoing firefox as root and then as user
> again, the bookmarks were owned by root.
>
> After I have changed the owner of the bookmarks to myself and
> restarted firefox, it has deleted all my bookmarks.

I had the same kind of problem.

In my case, the old bookmarks are in .firefox.

The new set of bookmarks is created in .mozilla/firefox.

So, stop firefox, move the .mozilla/firefox directory out of the way
and restart firefox. Hopefully you'll get your bookmarks back (I did).

HTH

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Dominique Dumont 
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