Bookmarks no longer work - Help

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My bookmarks stopped working and haven’t been working for weeks.

If I click a bookmark that is on my bookmarks toolbar or my Bookmarks dropdown,

nothing happens. If I save a new bookmark, for example, www.yahoo.com, and then

try to access this new bookmark, (for example, entitled “fred”)nothing happens.

I stay on the page that I was on. The new bookmarks shows in my bookmarks menu,

but clicking it does nothing. If I rest my cursor on the bookmark, the popup

shows the correct URL.

I’m on Cometbird 3.6.2. I’ve been using it for months now and love it.

They used to work. I have no idea why they stopped working.

All the bookmarks work fine if I click them in the Organize Bookmarks item (the Library).

One of your answers to someone about bookmarks says that bookmarks are stored here:

%appdata% in the CometNetwork/CometBird/Profiles/(you) directory under bookmarks.html

Under Profiles, my username is not listed (for example, my last name Smith), but instead

there is a folder called this: a05aoykp.default.

Under that is a bookmarks.html file with a last modified date of 8/8/2008.

The Profiles folder also contains a bookmarkbackups folder that contains a bookmarks.html file

with a date of 3/9/2010. and several .json files, for example, this one

bookmarks-04-07-2010.json

Can you tell me how to get my bookmarks working again?

Thank you.

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grokster,

Have you any toolbar installed? Have you installed any add-on or theme lately? If you did so, first thing you should try is disabling add-ons, one by one, and use CometBird this way, to have a clue about what’s causing this behavior. If you’re using a theme, get back the default theme and check if your bookmark toolbar comes back to life.

If that didn’t work, I suggest that you use the CometBird’s Safe Mode first. Here’s how (in your case, invoke the CB Safe Mode window and just press the Continue in Safe Mode button). If CometBird works normally again (it should), close it and run the CB’s Safe Mode again, and now check the Reset toolbars and controls box and then press the Make Changes and Restart button.

CometBird should be working normally by now. I really hope this helps! B)