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Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

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On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:20:55 PM EST Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 1/22/22, gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > Greetings all ff experts;
> > 
> > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering
> > that dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever
> > retention of bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low, or a
> > timeout that is quicker than it is useful. Looking at bookmarks, and
> > its been about a month since I logged in to move a few sheckels
> > around, I needed to do that again, and find that bookmark and login
> > have been expired out of access if not out of the machine. Obviously
> > that, being my banking, has never been written down. I have
> > foolishly depended on my browser to remember all that.
> 
> Ah, haaa. I noticed it twice in last two days while tracking down a
> crochet pattern for my dog's sweater. Those links were only two or
> three days old. For me, it's about URLs disappearing out of websurfing
> history, not CTRL+D bookmarking.
> 
> Not sure exactly when it started doing this, maybe last week;ish. I
> log out of user and alternately shut down completely while Firefox is
> still in use. I figured that suddenly was an issue when it hadn't been
> in a very long time.
> 
> Seems like this happened one other time in last couple years. It just
> sort of eventually corrected itself, i.e. Developers changed something
> that reversed the effect, THANK YOU!.
> 
> Good to know.. it's not just me. If I trip over anything about it,
> I'll chat it up. Mine's 98 Nightly off the website.
> 
> As an afterthought, I went into ~/.mozilla/firefox and poked around.
> I'm in a refreshed version because the ~13,000 tabs needed a break. So
> I'm in a different, smaller profile. I can't tell if any CTRL+D
> bookmarks are lost, BUT..
> 
> When I'm in the firefox child directory, I'm seeing a 20MB file,
> places.sqlite.corrupt. The places.sqlite that apparently replaced it
> is only 10MB large. That's a lot of loss of something that occurred in
> the last couple weeks.
> 
> When I right clicked to see if I could open places.sqlite and inspect
> the contents, Libreoffice tried to open it then reported back that it
> considers the 10MB file corrupt, too. Firefox appears to be able to
> read something out of that file because I haven't lost everything,
> anyway...
> 
> One last observation is that I thought it was my imagination that the
> overall size of backup copies of ~/.mozilla/firefox kept lunging
> around in their size instead of consistently growing larger over time.
> It's apparently not imagination, now.
> 
> Cindy :)

Thanks for backing me up Cindy. I found I did not own the .mozilla/
firefox directory but a recursive chown -R gene:gene * did not fix it.

No clue whats next.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
-- 
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
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  Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-22 22:10 +0100
    Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 00:00 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-23 01:00 +0100
        Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 01:20 +0100
          Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-23 01:50 +0100
  Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2022-01-22 22:30 +0100
  Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-22 23:50 +0100
    Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 00:10 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-01-23 00:20 +0100
        Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 01:10 +0100
          Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-23 01:20 +0100
  Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 02:30 +0100
    Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2022-01-23 03:10 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 04:10 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 04:10 +0100
    Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 03:10 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2022-01-23 03:20 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-23 17:00 +0100
        Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 19:50 +0100

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