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Workarounds to problems with Fast Dial and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 20:24.


The developer telega is unwell at the moment.

There have been a whole number of reports of problems with Fast Dial 2.22b/2.23b1 and Firefox 3.5+

The symptoms are that the Fast Dial suddenly presents just a Blank Page with no cells visible.

If one looks in Bookmarks one discovers that all the bookmarks from the Fast Dial Root Folder (Fast Dial) have ended up in Unsorted Bookmarks.
The Fast Dial Folder seems to be populated by a random selection of bookmarks.

It is quite unclear what triggers this sudden transformation.

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I would strongly recommend the regular backup of your Full Firefox Profile with FEBE as a way of safeguarding your Fast Dial (as well as your Firefox Profile).


It would seem that one can adopt different Approaches to resolving this problem, which is essentially a corruption of Bookmarks.[places.sqlite]


Approach 1

This is the method we have been recommending on this site as a result of feedback from users.
(see here and here)

Joe Blogs paraphrased this method very well on AMO

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Fast Dial Lost Icons Fix

This is what you do,delete nothing.

Start Fire Fox.
Click Bookmarks.
Click organise bookmarks.
Click import and back-up.
Click restore
Choose the latest date when it was working, i.e Yesterday.

It's back now.
Like it never happened. ;-)

Thanks JoeBlogs

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I have tested this method and it seems to work fine for restoring Fast Dial.

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For a more detailed description of this same procedure please see here

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Bookmarks are automatically backed up in more recent Versions of Firefox, so you should be able to find an earlier backup of Bookmarks, even though you yourself made no backup.


If on doing the above Fast Dial is still blank, then please see which folder in Bookmarks contains your Root Cells and if the Folder is called Fast Dial or your original Root Folder name, then please do the following:

Please see here

This worked for me in this situation.


For Russian users please see here


Approach 2

Used by Ria Klaassen here [for the more technically minded perhaps]

This essentially is the same as Approach 1 but uses a different and perhaps more elegant technique to arrive at the same end.

Quote:
I could solve the problem by deleting the file places.sqlite in my profile.
Then it imported automatically a bookmarks backup. Deleting places.sqlite will
make you lose your history.

For more details on how to do this please see here

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I have tested this Method.
Works just fine
Fast Dial was back as before.

For a more detailed description from Mozilla about this whole procedure see here

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If on doing the above Fast Dial is still blank, ( I experienced this once) then please see which folder in Bookmarks contains your Cells and if the Folder is called Fast Dial or your original Root Folder name, then please do the following:

Please see here

This worked for me in this very situation.


Approach 3 (found on AMO)

This involves copying all the Fast Dial bookmarks that have ended up in Unsorted Bookmarks (this seems to happen every time) into a new Fast Dial Folder.
Excellent and Very clear description

Please find here

(uploaded to Userlogos)

Many users have found this system works fine for them.
But for user simplicity my impression is that Approach 1 or 2 are less involved.


Approach 4

Others have found it sufficient to simply uninstall and reinstall Fast Dial.
But this is less common.


For users of XMarks (Previously Foxmarks) there is a detailed and helpful post on AMO.
I have uploaded it to Userlogos.
Please find here


In an effort to centralise this question in one thread, I am listing below links to reports of this problem.

The developer telega has tried to reproduce the problem without success.

All feedback most welcome, this needs sorting fast !!


Userlogos Threads

I upgraded to Fast Dial 3.5 and all cells empty - may 25

FD and FF 3.5 - june 6
includes bug report
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495898


fast dial draws link from history - june 8

Does this happen to anyone else - june 14

My Fast Dial is Blank - june 25

Null color and blank cells - june 25

Firefox 3.5 - june 30

Fast Dial 2.22b konnte nicht installiert werden - july 7

Fast Dial not working with new Firefox 3.5 - July 14

Lost all my fast dial Bookmarks - July 23

Fast Dial does not work in 3.5 - July 25


AMO (Mozilla Addons)

There are many users with problems


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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 00:49.

Restoring Bookmarks seems to have resolved things here

Thanks for the feedback, Montacerus

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by Mathieu Gagnon (not verified) on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 04:01.

Thankyou a 100 times ,,,
It worked for me

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 11:47.

@Mathieu Gagnon

Thankyou a 100 times ,,,
It worked for me

Good news !
Thanks for the feedback

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 19:38.

Problem solved here too by restoring bookmarks

Thanks for the feedback, Jeff Dunham

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 03:43.

This problem was also resolved in two earlier posts by restoring bookmarks.

here and here

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by Lis (not verified) on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 13:08.

Hi there!

I did this trick, but it didn't work for me, even after relaunching ffox
I only have the background image and empty cells, to which I can't add anything. Once I enter the alias and press OK the cells stay empty, too bad - because I'm fastdial addict:(
Could you please fix it!
mac os 10.5.7
ffox 3.5

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 13:17.

@Lis

Thanks for your feedback.

Please could you clarify.

Have you tried restoring previous bookmark backups as suggested ?

How many previous backups did you try restoring ?


Please could you try disabling your other add-ons and try restoring bookmarks again


Please could you make a backup copy immediately onto your hard drive of the non-working places.sqlite file, which you will find in your current Firefox profile.

This would enable the developer to analyse the cause of your problem.


Have you tried at the same time uninstalling and re-installing Fast Dial


Do you see any Errors in the error console. Please see here


Please try setting up Fast Dial in a New Firefox profile with no other addons and see if it works there


Many thanks

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by Lis (not verified) on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 15:35.

Thanks, chiaroscuro!

I tried the following: restoring bookmarks from all of the available backups. Didn't work.
Creating a new backup file (to my desktop) and restoring from it- didn't work.
Switching off other addons - didn't work.
Deleting fastdial and reinstalling it - didn't work either:(((

But (i hope it's the good news) there is something in error console.
NOTE i'm not into codes and programming stuff, so please excuse me for posting useless pieces of code down here. Another thing before I continue with the error log:
- do I have to toggle "javascript.options.showInConsole" back to false?
-I didn't quite get your idea about backuping sqlite file and where should i search for it and where should i put it? please excuse me, but i'm a complete noob

So the error console says the following (after pressing "clear"). I also had to translate some words into english:
1. Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIXPCComponents_Utils.import]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: file:///Users/username/Library/Application%20Support/Firefox/Profiles/wp... :: :: line 111" data: no]
2. Failed to load XPCOM component: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/wpkquzy6.default/extensions/{e0204bd5-9d31-402b-a99d-a6aa8ffebdca}/components/nsSessionStore3.js
3.Error: Warning: unrecognized command line flag -foreground

Source: file:///Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsBrowserCont...
Line: 708
4.Warning: Unknown characteristic «-moz-opacity». Lost warning.
Source: chrome://taboo/skin/overlay.css
Line: 96
5.The same as above, but line 100
6.TB: function torbutton_update_tags(win) {
torbutton_eclog(2, "Updating tags.");
if (typeof win.wrappedJSObject == "undefined") {
torbutton_eclog(3, "No JSObject: " + win.location);
return;
}
var wm = Components.classes['@torproject.org/content-window-mapper;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsISupports).wrappedJSObject;
if (win == win.top) {
wm.expireOldCache();
}
var browser = wm.getBrowserForContentWindow(win.top);
if (!browser) {
torbutton_log(5, "No window found!1");
return;
}
torbutton_log(2, "Got browser " + browser.contentWindow.location + " for: " + win.location + ", under: " + win.top.location);
var tor_tag = !m_tb_prefs.getBoolPref("extensions.torbutton.proxies_applied");
var js_enabled = m_tb_prefs.getBoolPref("javascript.enabled");
var kill_plugins = m_tb_prefs.getBoolPref("extensions.torbutton.no_tor_plugins");
if (!torbutton_check_flag(win.top, "__tb_did_tag")) {
torbutton_log(2, "Tagging browser for: " + win.location);
torbutton_set_flag(win.top, "__tb_did_tag");
if (typeof browser.__tb_tor_fetched == "undefined") {
torbutton_log(5, "Untagged browser at: " + win.location);
browser.__tb_tor_fetched = tor_tag;
}
if (browser.__tb_tor_fetched != !tor_tag) {
torbutton_log(2, "Purging session history");
if (browser.webNavigation.sessionHistory.count > 1 &&
m_tb_prefs.getBoolPref("extensions.torbutton.block_js_history")) {
var current = browser.webNavigation.contentViewer.historyEntry;
browser.webNavigation.sessionHistory.PurgeHistory(browser.webNavigation.sessionHistory.count);
if (current) {
browser.webNavigation.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsISHistoryInternal).addChildSHEntry(current, true);
}
}
}
browser.__tb_tor_fetched = !tor_tag;
browser.docShell.allowPlugins = tor_tag || !kill_plugins;
if (js_enabled && !browser.docShell.allowJavascript) {
torbutton_log(3, "Javascript changed from " + browser.docShell.allowJavascript + " to: " + js_enabled);
browser.docShell.allowJavascript = js_enabled;
torbutton_check_round(browser);
browser.reload();
} else {
torbutton_check_round(browser);
}
}
torbutton_log(2, "Tags updated.");
}
7.Error: wrong
Source:
Line 1, symbol 46
Primary code:
&u=5281206http://userlogos.org/files/css/37a89ea51e3cd98db5a85aadc6f1179a.css
line: 1
Warning: error found while analysing meaning of "font" bla-bla all the same further except for the alias and line
15.Ошибка: view.selection is null
Источник: chrome://global/content/config.js
line: 369
16.Предупреждение: Использование getBoxObjectFor() не рекомендуется. Если возможно, попробуйте использовать element.getBoundingClientRect().
source: chrome://fastdial/content/fastdial.html
line: 0
Warning: using getboxobjectfor() is not recomended. would you please use element.getbouncingclientrect()
how do you work with that?? it's worse than chemistry!
17.Предупреждение: Использование getBoxObjectFor() не рекомендуется. Если возможно, попробуйте использовать element.getBoundingClientRect().
Источник: http://userlogos.org/node/2206
Строка: 0
the same as p.16 but other source and line

Pfff.. that's it. would this help? can you please fix it? i don't know what's the problem, but please do something, because fastdial is soooo cool, i can't do without it

Thanks

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by Lis (not verified) on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 15:42.

Oh! It didn't insert everything. Once again starting from p.7

7.Error: wrong
Source:
Line 1, symbol 46
Primary code:
&u=5281206http://userlogos.org/files/css/37a89ea51e3cd98db5a85aadc6f1179a.css
line: 1
Warning: error found while analysing meaning of "font" bla-bla all the same further except for the alias and line
15.Ошибка: view.selection is null
Источник: chrome://global/content/config.js
line: 369
16.Предупреждение: Использование getBoxObjectFor() не рекомендуется. Если возможно, попробуйте использовать element.getBoundingClientRect().
source: chrome://fastdial/content/fastdial.html
line: 0
Warning: using getboxobjectfor() is not recomended. would you please use element.getbouncingclientrect()
how do you work with that?? it's worse than chemistry!
17.Предупреждение: Использование getBoxObjectFor() не рекомендуется. Если возможно, попробуйте использовать element.getBoundingClientRect().
Источник: http://userlogos.org/node/2206
Строка: 0
the same as p.16 but other source and line

Pfff.. that's it. would this help? can you please fix it? i don't know what's the problem, but please do something, because fastdial is soooo cool, i can't do without it

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Re: Problems with Fast Dial 2.22b and Firefox 3.5

Submitted by Lis (not verified) on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 15:47.

What the hell??? why does it ignore part of my message??

7.Error: wrong
Source:
Line 1, symbol 46
Primary code:
&u=5281206http://userlogos.org/files/css/37a89ea51e3cd98db5a85aadc6f1179a.css
line: 1
Warning: error found while analysing meaning of "font" bla-bla all the same further except for the alias and line
15.Ошибка: view.selection is null
Источник: chrome://global/content/config.js
line: 369
16.Предупреждение: Использование getBoxObjectFor() не рекомендуется. Если возможно, попробуйте использовать element.getBoundingClientRect().
source: chrome://fastdial/content/fastdial.html
line: 0
Warning: using getboxobjectfor() is not recomended. would you please use element.getbouncingclientrect()
how do you work with that?? it's worse than chemistry!
17.Предупреждение: Использование getBoxObjectFor() не рекомендуется. Если возможно, попробуйте использовать element.getBoundingClientRect().
Источник: http://userlogos.org/node/2206
Строка: 0
the same as p.16 but other source and line

Pfff.. that's it. would this help? can you please fix it? i don't know what's the problem, but please do something, because fastdial is soooo cool, i can't do without it

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