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by Chaosvex 68 days ago
Firefox is absolutely abysmal at not corrupting its JSON stores, too. I've had it crash and lose tabs so many times. Perhaps moving back to SQLite wouldn't be a bad idea.

I had to recover somebody's bookmarks for them recently after it decided to destroy the main copy.
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andOlga 67 days ago
The SQLite parts that exist in Firefox right now are no less fiddly. If you crash the thing and the journal files are still there, it starts back up and presents you with a blank profile. Absolutely horrifying if you don't know about this quirk (and about the fact that you can go in and delete those even after such a restart happens).
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mockingloris 68 days ago
> I had to recover somebody's bookmarks for them recently after it decided to destroy the main copy.

@Chaosvex curious how you did that.

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Chaosvex 68 days ago
Thankfully, it makes backups inside the profile folder and has a bookmarks file import option that'll accept them.

It does the same for session tabs (minus the import options) but that never seems to actually work.

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