Firefox 34 - Awesome Bar no longer finds some bookmarks after upgrade
I just upgraded to FF34 and having a horrible time getting everything functioning right again. My current problem is that when I type a name in the Awesome Bar, it will not look at ALL my bookmarks. It does show some, but not all. For example if I type exp, it properly shows my bookmark for Experts Exchange. If I type fire, it shows nothing even though I have 4-5 bookmarks related to firefox. If I type the letter "s" I can see 5 related bookmarks but not the proper one. I have the location bar in the settings set to History and Bookmarks. I have not found any solutions on the web and am at a loss as to what to try next. I even deleted the bookmark and added it back with no improvement. Since I have started in safe mode and still see the problem, I know it is not one of my add ons. Anyone know of a solution?
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Can you go to your bookmarks manager and then export ask bookmarks and then post that here?. I will import and test and see if My Firefox will display the bookmarks.
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If you are on Firefox version 34, just try to add a new bookmark. Any new bookmark I add right now is not showing in the awesomebar.
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Your question spurred me on to try a couple different items and I found it!!!
You made me think about wiping out all my bookmarks and starting over. I decided the easy way to wipe them out would be to deleted places.sqlite as that is where all the bookmarks are stored. However, when I opend firefox back up all my bookmarks where still there. I started digging around and found a folder with a firefox made backup of all my bookmarks. I then exported out all of my bookmarks, manually deleted them all and then deleted all the backup files. Stopped and restarted firefox to make sure they were all gone. Then closed out firefox, imported my bookmarks and now they all work! I have a couple other machines with this problem and I am going to try a few ideas to see if I can simplify the process and post it back here. Thanks for making me take a look at the problem from a different angle.
You made me think about wiping out all my bookmarks and starting over. I decided the easy way to wipe them out would be to deleted places.sqlite as that is where all the bookmarks are stored. However, when I opend firefox back up all my bookmarks where still there. I started digging around and found a folder with a firefox made backup of all my bookmarks. I then exported out all of my bookmarks, manually deleted them all and then deleted all the backup files. Stopped and restarted firefox to make sure they were all gone. Then closed out firefox, imported my bookmarks and now they all work! I have a couple other machines with this problem and I am going to try a few ideas to see if I can simplify the process and post it back here. Thanks for making me take a look at the problem from a different angle.
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Thanks for letting us know how you fixed it. Glad I could help a little.
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Found my own solution. mtz1of4's question helped me get down the right path.
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