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the bookmarks on my bookmark toolbar are being deleted or duplicated. Is this a virus?

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When I opened Firefox the bookmarks on my bookmark toolbar appeared in the wrong order. When I tried to rearrange them, several deleted themselves and others duplicated. Since then, every time I open Firefox other bookmarks on the toolbar duplicate or delete. This looks like a virus to me, but I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu, and never had a problem with a virus before.

When I opened Firefox the bookmarks on my bookmark toolbar appeared in the wrong order. When I tried to rearrange them, several deleted themselves and others duplicated. Since then, every time I open Firefox other bookmarks on the toolbar duplicate or delete. This looks like a virus to me, but I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu, and never had a problem with a virus before.

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cor-el
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This can be a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.