"Show All Bookmarks" is not showing all bookmarks
upgraded to FF 4. When clicked, Bookmarks Toolbar button shows various bookmark folders with all of my bookmarks. It also shows the "Show All Bookmarks" option. When that is clicked the "All Bookmarks" folder is empty and I cannot organize any of the bookmarks which are in the main menu.
Also, the other Bookmarks button which used to show all my bookmarks is now empty - it just shows "search".
Deleted localstore.rdf and no change.
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This can be a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
Thanks - read through the link and since the problem is only with bookmarks I did a bookmark restore which didn't solve the problem. Went back to FF 3.6.15 and everything works fine. Seems like whatever happens in the upgrade process to FF 4 RC does not move all the old bookmarks into the bookmarks library correctly.
After numerous reinstalls failed to solve this problem, I discovered that on my system, it has to do with using an external monitor (via DVI port). When I drag the Firefox window from my laptop screen to an external monitor, "Show All Bookmarks" is suddenly empty. Dragging the browser window back to the original display (laptop) does NOT fix it. Firefox must be RESTARTED on the original display. When Firefox re-opens, "Show All Bookmarks" functions normally again.
WORK AROUND: the only way I can view "Show All Bookmarks" on my external monitor is to first open both the browser and "Show All Bookmarks" windows on the original display, drag BOTH windows to the other monitor and be sure to leave the "Show All Bookmarks" library window open in the background. If I forget and close it by accident, the problem happens all over again.
HOW TO PREVENT THE PROBLEM?? New discovery. On a Mac -- if I open Display Preferences and click on Arrangement and make sure the menu bar of the original display is not above the second display, the problem doesn't seem to happen. (If it has already occurred, I still have to, at least once, drag window to orig. display and restart Firefox. After that, I can drag windows between monitors without problems.)
> Thanks - read through the link and since the problem is only with bookmarks
I had this problem too and it also concerned only bookmarks however the suggested solution worked for me. It won't suffice to backup & restore, you must also stop FF & delete places.sqlite between the two.