noscript updated - bookmarks lost

[quenenni]

Hello,

I updated the noscript addon and start Iceweasel today and surprise, I lost all my bookmarks.

I only have one more and guess which one...
A new bookmark for noscript website!!!! Total cool..

What the hell are you doing. Who do you think you are?

Who asked you to play with bookmarks and more to put a new bookmark without asking?!

I don't like what happens with you guys these last months.
I've read lots of topics of what you did with adblock. Shitty mentality.. Even if I don't use adblock, I really think you were small minded.

And now you try to insert new stuff without asking and consequences are that I lost things because of you..

That's bullshit.

How the hell am I going to get back my bookmarks without re-encoding all of them!

Of course, I removed it, but of course no change.. now the damage is done.. no bookmarks any more.

Q

[Giorgio Maone]

Uh? NoScript doesn't do anything like that.
Neither it erases your bookmarks nor adds any bookmark of its own, unless you've enabled the Weave/XMark synchronization feature which creates an encoded bookmark containing your configuration, but anyway not a bookmark to NoScript's web site.
Could you show me a screenshot?
But however I'm afraid you need to search elsewhere the culprit of your problem.

[quenenni]

Uh? NoScript doesn't do anything like that.
Neither it erases your bookmarks nor adds any bookmark of its own, unless you've enabled the Weave/XMark synchronization feature which creates an encoded bookmark containing your configuration, but anyway not a bookmark to NoScript's web site.
Could you show me a screenshot?.

Wrong.. It's your add-on who did it.
I just update the plugin, start the browser and no more bookmarks..
No other update was made.

The file bookmarks.html is still there, in the right place, but iceweasel doesn't seem to recognise it any more.

And the no script bookmark wasn't there before and now it's the only one I have..

So you can say what you want, I'm sure that the problem comes from the update.

What screenshot do you want.. to see my bookmarks bar completely empty or the bookmark menu empty with only the noscript one?! (even the name "personnal toolbar" in the bookmark menu disappeared.

But however I'm afraid you need to search elsewhere the culprit of your problem.

Great thought!

Q

[Giorgio Maone]

Wrong.. It's your add-on who did it.
I just update the plugin, start the browser and no more bookmarks..
No other update was made.

You know the difference between correlation and causation, don't you?

The file bookmarks.html is still there, in the right place

That file has not served any real purpose in Firefox-derived browsers for a long time now.

So you can say what you want, I'm sure that the problem comes from the update.

Congratulations then, you're the only user in the world I decided to target with this evil operation
Anyway, when you decide to cool down, this article may help you.

[quenenni]

You know the difference between correlation and causation, don't you?

I can ask you the same question!

Can you tell me why the noscript bookmark just appeared after the update?!

And you know, mister correlation, I just discovered that the content of the only bookmark left I have (the new noscript) contains all my noscript whitelist in the description field! Great!
And the second field, the url, send me to a page where it says it's not a normal bookmark but I have to use something else to sync my bookmarks.. no way! I never used sync for my bookmarks and won't.

Congratulations then, you're the only user in the world I decided to target with this evil operation

What a second great thought!

Q

[Giorgio Maone]

Can you tell me why the noscript bookmark just appeared after the update?!

I've got this nice theory:

1. Sometimes in the past you accidentally checked the NoScript Options|Backup NoScript configuration in a bookmark for easy synchronization preference.
   This creates the bookmark you've seen and keeps it updated with your current NoScript configuration, whether you use a synchronization service such as XMarks or Weave (in which case it is useful) or not (in which case it's rather useless but innocuous). You just didn't notice it among the many other bookmarks you used to have.
2. Last time you restarted your browser (which, by chance, just happened to coincide with a NoScript update) your bookmarks DB went corrupted, something which can happen for a number of reasons (as you can read in the article above)
3. Since the NoScript configuration bookmark gets recreated each time you start the browser or change your permissions, you found it as the only surviving (recreated, in reality) bookmark and jumped to conclusions.

Bottom line, this article is still probably your best chance.

[quenenni]

Can you tell me why the noscript bookmark just appeared after the update?!

I've got this nice theory:

1. Sometimes in the past you accidentally checked the NoScript Options|Backup NoScript configuration in a bookmark for easy synchronization preference.
   This creates the bookmark you've seen and keeps it updated with your current NoScript configuration, whether you use a synchronization service such as XMarks or Weave (in which case it is useful) or not (in which case it's rather useless but innocuous). You just didn't notice it among the many other bookmarks you used to have.
2. Last time you restarted your browser (which, by chance, just happened to coincide with a NoScript update) your bookmarks DB went corrupted, something which can happen for a number of reasons (as you can read in the article above)
3. Since the NoScript configuration bookmark gets recreated each time you start the browser or change your permissions, you found it as the only surviving (recreated, in reality) bookmark and jumped to conclusions.

Bottom line, this article is still probably your best chance.

Of course.. Am I stupid..
No errors can comes from noscript.

Always the others who are responsible. Firefox, me, the Os, why not adblock, tralala..

No, your bookmark wasn't there before. I have a big bookmark file and they are all placed in my personnal bookmark toolbar except few (and the new noscript one).. They are all well classified, so it was easy to detect.
And I'm more than certain that (before) yesterday, it was not there.. I will have deleted as soon as I had noticed it.

I've read the article you gave me (even before you gave it to me) and others too. But no points are relevant for me.

Anyway, it seems I won't find a solution here.

I know your addon works good, really good, but because of:
- what you did with adblock,
- popup coming on every update (and lots of update) (even if finally, you decided to add an option to remove that @@#¼ feature),
- noscript bookmark created without asking,
- all errors can only come from others,

I'm startting to not trust this addon any more.
Your addon is great (I really think it's a real good addon), but the philosophy behind seems less great (to my point of view of course).

Good luck with it.

Q

PS: by the way, on the page about lost bookmarks, we can read this:

Bookmarks missing after restarting
This may occur on Windows systems if your Web browser is not properly shut down before you power down or restart the computer. Make sure you always close the browser before shutting down or restarting the computer.
The problem can also be caused by a faulty or misconfigured plugin or extension, or even malware, causing Firefox to remain in memory. To see if this is your problem, perform the following steps:

[therube]

- popup coming on every update (and lots of update) (even if finally, you decided to add an option to remove that @@#¼ feature),
- noscript bookmark created without asking

- Option to disable has been there for a long time now. It's in NoScript Options.
- Never created any bookmarks for me?

Does FF 3.0.x have a /bookmarkbackups/ directory in your Profile?
Are bookmarks the only thing that went missing or changed?

[exlennyuser]

File corruption happens, get used to it.
Bookmarks got lost for me a few times with debian.
I wasn't running NS at the time.

Recreating the ~/.mozilla directory worked well enough in those situations for my installation.

Why not go and moan at the debian package maintainer about dependencies checking while you're at it
Better still, check your dependency libraries are all up to date.