[Bug 226165] Re: bookmarks are gone, I can not add bookmarks or import bookmarks backup, the toolbar does not work, the buttons back, then update are broken, the bar gives direction errors

[q41]

Just experienced same problem. "sudo firefox" solved the problem, but
this is of course an unacceptable solution from a security point of
view. Then I noticed that a couple of files in my firefox profile
directory were owned by root for some reason. (Might this be the result
of installing a new toolbar as root? (which I did...))

Thus, upon executing "sudo chown -R <my username>:<my username> " here my problem was solved :) 
The profile directory can be found in ~/.mozilla/firefox/, the one with a really random name :P

hope this helps

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 bookmarks are gone, I can not add bookmarks or import bookmarks backup, the toolbar does not work, the buttons back, then update are broken, the bar gives direction errors
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