Bookmark names and URLs mixed up
Upgraded to 4.0.1 and now all my bookmarks are shifted over one name. For example, I had Yahoo and Amazon next to each other on the bookmark toolbar, in that order left to right. Now, when I click the Yahoo bookmark, I get the link to Amazon...and when I click Amazon, I get the link to the Orioles homepage, which is the 'name' of the bookmark to the right of Amazon. Not to mention, I have about 8 that are missing completely from the toolbar. I really don't want to have to go back to rename all my dang bookmarks. (It is like this in the drop down list as well as on the bookmark toolbar.)
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Never heard of that happening. But problems with bookmarks have been provided for to a limited extent, by having some bookmark backups available even for people that don't backup.
In your profile are 5-10 bookmark backups try restoring to an earlier date. "Ctrl+Shift+B" (show all bookmarks) > Import and Backup > Restore > choose date the problem occurred or the day before, if that doesn't work try the next day back.
The Restore is done by Firefox with Firefox up and running , a restore goes very fast.
Backups are taken once a day early in the day.
FWIW, you should also have your own backups of your user data from all applications external disk drives are cheap. Backing up your Firefox profile would easily fit on a thumb drive. But you really should be backing up all user data youself.
Thanks - that seems to have worked. I'm on a small network here at work, and they do daily backups of our network server - which would include our profiles, so our user data would be backed up as well. Just saw the problem today and my IT doesn't technically support Firefox (I'm lucky they let me keep it on my computers), so I can't bug them with any issues about it.
A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.