[Bug 322414] Re: firefox browser lost all bookmarks and the back / forward buttons do not work

[prabhuft]

I have since removed wubi and did a full install of ubuntu and now there are no issues.....

thanks
Prabhu

--- On Tue, 4/7/09, Neal Konneker <ntkonn at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Neal Konneker <ntkonn at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Bug 322414] Re: firefox browser lost all bookmarks and the back / forward buttons do not work
> To: prabhuft at yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 3:40 PM
> Problem fixed????
> 
> I have been trying to downgrade to a version of Firefox
> that worked and
> tried the following:
> 
> sudo apt-get purge firefox-3.0
> rm -r ~/.mozilla/firefox
> sudo apt-get install firefox-2
> 
> This failed to remove firefox-3.0 and I was told that
> firefox-2 was not
> available, however when I fired up the Firefox 3 that was
> not removed
> the forward and backward buttons were working as well as
> the home
> function.  Perhaps doing the rm -r ~/.mozilla cleared out
> some old setup
> files that was causing the problem????
> 
> -- 
> firefox browser lost all bookmarks and the back / forward
> buttons do not work 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322414
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> Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: New
> 
> Bug description:
> Firefox worked fine till yesterday, as of last night (US
> Arizona time), the forward and back buttons are greyed out,
> and i cannot go back. I tried to go into toolbars, customize
> and reset, and that only closes firefox completely, when i
> reopen, and it asks if i want to go to saved session, and
> say yes, it opens a blank page. I tried to reinstall firefox
> and it does not do anything. I use Ubuntu, with latest
> updates loaded this morning. firefox is version 3.0.5,
> firefox for unbuntu canonical 1.0 and ubunutu is  Ubuntu
> 8.10
>                 - the Intrepid Ibex - released in October
> 2008

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