hi

i can't add any bookmark while in firefox, history also does not work

i'm using firefox v21 and debian 7 on a thinkpad

any suggestions?

thanks,

what are the symptoms?
do you drag bookmark to toolbar? do you press ctrl+d? can you open "places" (bookmark manager)? can you edit names of a bookmark? can you drag them or copy them?

history.
do you use text menu to open history or press ctrl+h?
is there no response at all? or do you see some greyed (disabled) commands?

your (two?) question might be better in mozilla or mozillazine forum...

edit: found links that may provide info. maybe the places.sqlite is locked or some other problem?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.sqlite
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_not_saved

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

It's a long shot but let's rule that one out first: have you, by any chance, run out of space? What's the output of 'df -h'?

erdos@thinkpad:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 5.6G 4.2G 1.2G 79% /
none 184M 0 184M 0% /dev
/dev/disk/by-uuid/f72360f5-4103-4a47-a9ff-dfc26d93a053 5.6G 4.2G 1.2G 79% /
tmpfs 38M 388K 38M 2% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 177M 0 177M 0% /run/shm
/dev/sda4 2.8G 2.6G 0 100% /home



strange, /home is 2.6G out of 2.8G, but it shows 100% full?

Try to free some space and see if that helps.

also firefox 26 is the current
21 is a few security updates out of date

time to update firefox

i deleted everything in trash and firefox cache as well as some other files, and bookmarks as well as history are working now

thanks for the help!

Glad you got it work!