On Saturday, January 22, 2022 8:20:55 PM EST Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/22/22, gene heskett <ghesk...@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. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: 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 Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
