Can you create a bookmark with the location set to that link in the Bookmarks Manager (Library)?

Did you check for problems with the places.sqlite database file?

(edited to restore accidentally deleted content)

cor-el said

Can you create a bookmark with the location set to that link in the Bookmarks Manager (Library)es with the places.sqlite database file?

How would I do that...

Sorry I appear to have removed some of the text in my above reply by accident and I have corrected it.

You can open the Bookmarks Manager (Library) via the "Show your bookmarks" button that is next to the star on the Navigation Toolbar. You can create a new bookmark in the right pane via the right-click context menu. Then you can select that bookmark and check its properties in the details pane at the bottom right.

cor-el said

Sorry I appear to have removed some of the text in my above reply by accident and I have corrected it. You can open the Bookmarks Manager (Library) via the "Show your bookmarks" button that is next to the star on the Navigation Toolbar. You can create a new bookmark in the right pane via the right-click context menu. Then you can select that bookmark and check its properties in the details pane at the bottom right.

Yes, I may do as you instruct with one problem...the site below is not there to rt click .... http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-clean-infected-computer.htm

Problems with bookmarks and history not working properly can be caused by a corrupted places.sqlite database file.

Type about:support in the address bar and press enter.

Under the page logo on the left side you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To it’s right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox.

Locate the places.sqlite file. Then rename or delete it. Restart Firefox.

FredMcD said

Problems with bookmarks and history not working properly can be caused by a corrupted places.sqlite database file. Type about:support in the address bar and press enter. Under the page logo on the left side you will see Application Basics. Under this find Profile Folder. To it’s right press the button Show Folder. This will open your file browser to the current Firefox profile. Now Close Firefox. Locate the places.sqlite file. Then rename or delete it. Restart Firefox.

Renamed places.sqlite to places.sqliteold.....seems issue is resolved....Thanks... Um, do I keep places.sqliteold and newly created places.sqlite

I already posted on the first page of this thread that you should check for issues with the places.sqlite file.

Did you miss this or didn't it work at the time?

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cor-el said

I already posted on the first page of this thread that you should check for issues with the places.sqlite file. Did you miss this or didn't it work at the time?

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After I updated to 36.0.1....I tried rename again and rename seems to have resolved. Don't know why now and not before. Will see if sorted 100% after more trial. So, do I retain sqliteold and new sqlite....?

You do not need to keep the older copies if the newly created copy works and you didn't lose bookmarks. You will lose history doing repairs to places.sqlite.

You can first try the Places Maintenance extension to see if that can repair the file or offers to restart Firefox to create a new copy of places.sqlite.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/

cor-el said

You do not need to keep the older copies if the newly created copy works and you didn't lose bookmarks. You will lose history doing repairs to places.sqlite. You can first try the Places Maintenance extension to see if that can repair the file or offers to restart Firefox to create a new copy of places.sqlite.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/

Well, a new places.sqlite was created after renaming. I have access to Bookmarks from places.sqliteold ... but, Icons have not refreshed. But, I suspect issue is sorted because url's that would not Bookmark ... now, go to Bookmark. Am I accessing old Bookmarks from renamed places or did Bookmarks migrate over to newly created places. Thereby allowing me to delete renamed places. I can leave both. Now, that Bookmarks work for apparently all url's. No biggy leaving places.sqliteold in default profile.

( History not a concern.  I delete History upon close )

When you delete or rename places.sqlite then Firefox will create a new file and will try to rebuild the bookmarks from a recent JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder and won't use other copies of places.sqlite, so you do not need to keep those and you can delete them.

cor-el said

When you delete or rename places.sqlite then Firefox will create a new file and will try to rebuild the bookmarks from a recent JSON backup in the bookmarkbackups folder and won't use other copies of places.sqlite, so you do not need to keep those and you can delete them.

So, should I add Places Maintenance. It's new to me ... ? Isn't places maintenance run as required. I'm not loosing Bookmarks. I was just was not able to Bookmark certain url's. I have no idea what was the issue with those certain url's. Is there a way to refresh the Bookmark Icons that were lost in the new places file.

The Places Maintenance extension is a special extension that can run some checks on the places.sqlite database and is sometimes, but not always, able to repair the file if errors are found, so you do not have to do that yourself. It doesn't hurt to try the PM extension first as it will work in a lot of cases.

OK ~ Executed PM extension "All"..... favicons did not refresh. > Integrity check + The database is sane > Reindex + The database has been reindexed > Orphans expiration + Database cleaned up > Coherence check + The database is coherent > Vacuum Initial database size is 10240 KiB + The database has been vacuumed Final database size is 10240 KiB > Statistics Database size is 10240 KiB user_version is 25 page_size is 32768 cache_size is -2048 journal_mode is wal synchronous is 1 History can store a maximum of 104858 unique pages Table moz_places has 95 records Table moz_historyvisits has 12 records Table moz_inputhistory has 0 records Table moz_hosts has 57 records Table moz_bookmarks has 94 records Table moz_bookmarks_roots has 5 records Table moz_keywords has 0 records Table sqlite_sequence has 0 records Table moz_favicons has 8 records Table moz_anno_attributes has 6 records Table moz_annos has 64 records Table moz_items_annos has 89 records Table sqlite_stat1 has 14 records Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_inputhistory_1 Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_hosts_1 Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_bookmarks_roots_1 Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_keywords_1 Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_favicons_1 Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_anno_attributes_1 Index moz_places_faviconindex Index moz_places_hostindex Index moz_places_visitcount Index moz_places_frecencyindex Index moz_places_lastvisitdateindex Index moz_historyvisits_placedateindex Index moz_historyvisits_fromindex Index moz_historyvisits_dateindex Index moz_bookmarks_itemindex Index moz_bookmarks_parentindex Index moz_bookmarks_itemlastmodifiedindex Index moz_places_url_uniqueindex Index moz_places_guid_uniqueindex Index moz_bookmarks_guid_uniqueindex Index moz_annos_placeattributeindex Index moz_items_annos_itemattributeindex

You can use this extension to restore the favicons.

• FavIcon Reloader: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/faviconreloader/

OK ~ installed Favicon Reloader.... Um, how do I execute Reloader to refresh all Bookmarks ? One by one I can refresh a favicon by migrating to the bookmarked url. Does the Favicon Reloader do something that's not intuitive to me yet ?

You can find "Reload Favorites Icons" in the Bookmarks menu.

• Tap the Alt key or press F10 to show the Menu Bar temporarily

cor-el said

You can find "Reload Favorites Icons" in the Bookmarks menu.

• Tap the Alt key or press F10 to show the Menu Bar temporarily

Cool...I found Reload as per your help. most Bookmarks refreshed with Favicon... Cool Thanks.....Issue is resolved. Thanks.... !!!! How should I close this Thread ? How do I bookmark is Solved.

You can mark the reply that best answers your question(s) as the solution by clicking the "Solves the problem" button next to it.

Well, Bookmarks broken again....

May have something to do with SBoxie or Shadow Defender.

I do allow SBoxie direct access to Firefox bookmarks and I do commit via Shadow Defender places.sqlite....

that's all I know...something is corrupting place.sqlite folder and SBoxie - Shadow Defender both interact with place.sqlite

any thoughts  ?

Thanks