bookmarks not saved in firefox

[chricton]

I just installed firefox from the activities page. How nice to have more of the browsing features I am accustomed to. My thanks to all those who worked on this!

Anyway, I noticed two things. They may be related, they may not.
1) When I try to bookmark a website/page, even though firefox goes through the motions, my bookmarks are never really saved. The next time I fire-up the XO or start firefox again, the bookmarks aren't in the list. This may be due to an improper shutdown of firefox? (see the next item)

2) I start firefox from the Home View. I see the firefox activity icon in the circle, then firefox presents itself. If I go back to the Home View now I see the firefox icon (in perpetual "starting..." mode) and a new icon that has an unconnected network shape (simple gray circle). Back in firefox I do what WEB access I need, then Close or Quit the application. Back to the Home View, the gray circle is gone but the perpetually starting firefox icon is still there. At this point I can not stop the "starting" firefox, I can not start firefox again from the Activities list, my only recourse is to shutown and restart the XO (if I want to restart firefox).

Any ideas out there?

[cuprum]

I recently installed firefox 3. I start it from the command line instead of sugar.
I can stop it using the usual methods.

I do have the bookmarks problem you mention. I backup my bookmarks to a file and they are there when I start next time. (even though I didn't tell firefox to restore)

[cuprum]

The problem went away for me. I do not know why.

I went to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_not_saved

I followed the directions on restoring the "browser.places" settings.

I added a bookmark, and saw that it survived a quit.

I wanted to know which setting it was, so I deleted my .mozillla directory. All the settings are there, right?

Now my bookmarks work just fine, even though I did not re-fix the problem.

Answers, theories and stories appreciated. I'm going to move my cache off the built-in memory. Good luck chricton, this stuff is weird.

[yorgi]

I just installed firefox from the activities page. How nice to have more of the browsing features I am accustomed to. My thanks to all those who worked on this!
Anyway, I noticed two things. They may be related, they may not.
1) When I try to bookmark a website/page, even though firefox goes through the motions, my bookmarks are never really saved. The next time I fire-up the XO or start firefox again, the bookmarks aren't in the list. This may be due to an improper shutdown of firefox? (see the next item)
2) I start firefox from the Home View. I see the firefox activity icon in the circle, then firefox presents itself. If I go back to the Home View now I see the firefox icon (in perpetual "starting..." mode) and a new icon that has an unconnected network shape (simple gray circle). Back in firefox I do what WEB access I need, then Close or Quit the application. Back to the Home View, the gray circle is gone but the perpetually starting firefox icon is still there. At this point I can not stop the "starting" firefox, I can not start firefox again from the Activities list, my only recourse is to shutown and restart the XO (if I want to restart firefox).
Any ideas out there?

I have the same trouble. Tried to follow steps provided in previous post, but still my bookmarks aren't saved. Does anybody know how to solve this?

[Jaime17]

I just installed firefox from the activities page. How nice to have more of the browsing features I am accustomed to. My thanks to all those who worked on this!

Anyway, I noticed two things. They may be related, they may not.
1) When I try to bookmark a website/page, even though firefox goes through the motions, my bookmarks are never really saved. The next time I fire-up the XO or start firefox again, the bookmarks aren't in the list. This may be due to an improper shutdown of firefox? (see the next item)

2) I start firefox from the Home View. I see the firefox activity icon in the circle, then firefox presents itself. If I go back to the Home View now I see the firefox icon (in perpetual "starting..." mode) and a new icon that has an unconnected network shape (simple gray circle). Back in firefox I do what WEB access I need, then Close or Quit the application. Back to the Home View, the gray circle is gone but the perpetually starting firefox icon is still there. At this point I can not stop the "starting" firefox, I can not start firefox again from the Activities list, my only recourse is to shutown and restart the XO (if I want to restart firefox).

Any ideas out there?

Glad to hear that that you accustomed more of the browsing features. It was actually nice!
Hmmm... I will take a research about it.




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[hazelir]

How can I give Firefox longer to open websites? When I try to open some websites I sometimes fail, because Firefox stops me from doing this if they take more than ten seconds to open. I believe I can change the settings to give Firefox longer to open websites, but I can't work out how to do it. Can anyone help?