I have a BIG problem with lost bookmarks …at the top of the browser I have this in RED …the bookmark and history system will not be functional because one of firefox files is in use by another application.some security software can cause this problem. have try many fix … NOTHING works…
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at this time I like to thanks firefox for the lost of all my bookmarks …have try to recover them but to no avail… on my main desktop some program is fucking up firefox…try all that you said to do …nothing works … so do I dump firefox from all computers and tablets which I have used for many many years or have you fix the problem … your perferred
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Can you provide a link to your thread on https://support.mozilla.org/ so I can see what went wrong there?
If you need to extract your bookmarks from one of Firefox’s automatic backups to use in another browser, or in a new Firefox profile, this tool can create an HTML-format file that is cross-browser compatible:
Thanks for the screenshot.
Did you already try creating a new places.sqlite database as described in the corresponding article: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/fix-bookmarks-and-history-will-not-be-functional
I don’t know what other program would be touching places.sqlite. Maybe some software that clears history (or spies on your history)?
This problem has just started with HP/Win 10 & Portable FF 145.0.1. It may be how I shut down, and FF & MS is dumping data, (aka snooping), say, and I switch off broadband during obvious activity. I tried re-naming the corrupt places files and using them, deleting all history but there were certain “places” it refused to delete like local HTML (inc JavaScript), & one pointing to the site of a phone network I don’t use. It may be the external SSD but I somehow doubt it. Experimenting continues.