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Firefox won't start due to bookmarks

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hsrstud
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Thank you for your help.

In order to get Firefox to start on my computer, I have to open the program multiple times (killing the process in between tries).

To troubleshoot why this is occurring I backed up my settings, created a new profile, and transferred my settings to the new profile incrementally. I figured out that the problem occurs once I transfer my bookmarks to the new profile.

I'm wondering why this is the case and how I can amend this situation without getting rid of all of my bookmarks. I have a lot of them and they are organized into folders, so it would be impossible to recreate what I have.

Thank you for your help. In order to get Firefox to start on my computer, I have to open the program multiple times (killing the process in between tries). To troubleshoot why this is occurring I backed up my settings, created a new profile, and transferred my settings to the new profile incrementally. I figured out that the problem occurs once I transfer my bookmarks to the new profile. I'm wondering why this is the case and how I can amend this situation without getting rid of all of my bookmarks. I have a lot of them and they are organized into folders, so it would be impossible to recreate what I have.

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cor-el
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How did you move the bookmarks?

Did you move places.sqlite or did you restore from a JSON backup?
If you haven't done the latter then you can give that a try to see if it works.

hsrstud
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I used MozBackup.

hsrstud
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Bumping...

I should mention that the problem isn't created by transferring the bookmarks. Instead, by transferring my settings incrementally (including bookmarks) I was able to identify that my bookmarks are causing the problem (before and after transferring. The incremental transfer simply allowed me to identify the root of the problem.

cor-el
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If you used MozBackup to restore the bookmarks then I assume that the file places.sqlite is causing the problem.
You can try to restore the bookmarks from a JSON backup.

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