# Firefox losing bookmarks

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-losing-bookmarks/455442>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 6, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-losing-bookmarks/455442 "2008-07-06T07:33:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-losing-bookmarks/455442/1 "2008-07-06T07:33:26Z")

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Twice now in the past week I’ve started my computer only to find that Firefox had lost quite a few of my bookmarks. Anyone else run into this? Any ideas how to fix it?

Firefox/2.0.0.15

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-losing-bookmarks/455442/2 "2008-07-07T17:15:37Z")

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No one?

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-losing-bookmarks/455442/3 "2008-07-07T17:25:10Z")

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Nope. Sorry. I’ve had the same bookmarks for years.

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**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-losing-bookmarks/455442/4 "2008-07-07T17:29:06Z")

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[Here](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks) are tips from Mozilla on recovering lost bookmarks and preventing future problems including backing them up. I also store my bookmarks at [mybookmarks.com](http://mybookmarks.com) and try to remember to update the list occasionally. [del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us) is a more popular site for storing bookmarks.

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**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-losing-bookmarks/455442/5 "2008-07-07T17:31:29Z")

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I know this used to happen with Firefox 1.x (pre-1.5 I think) which was caused by a new session being opened up when the previous session failed to close down properly and left a phantom task running. This caused the new session to try and access the bookmarks – which were opened in protected read mode – fail, and then kill them and start a new set, killing your old one.

I thought they’d fixed this though. Could be a different problem, but that was the cause of this exact problem in old versions.

The solution was to upgrade to the new version. (3.01 is out, FYI)