Issues with Firefox 3.6

Lately there have been issues with people who have upgraded it on the mac side.  I noticed that a few people had mentioned that there firefox 3.6 viewing websites properly and some of them had the history or bookmarks not working.

After doing some searching online, I saw that most of the issues can be cleared up just by fixing the corrupt places.sqlite file.  On the mac, you have a few different library files.  different websites say different folders.  I found the folder though.

The idea is that we are going to throw away the places.sqlite file and restart firefox 3.6 this will force firefox to regenerate a good file.

The steps

1. locate the places.sqlite file, this is in your Users/username/library/… then go to Application support/Firefox/Profiles/yourdefaultname/ in here will be this file.

2. trash the places.sqlite file, well makesure firefox is not running first.

3.  Launch firefox, this should fix your issues with the history and bookmarks.  I noticed it cleaned up some of the other issues when this program ran also.