After upgrading a user from a very old Firefox to a much newer one, she had a problem develop where she could no longer save any new bookmarks. After a second day, the bookmarks all disappeared.
It turns out that the places.sqlite database in her ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/random ID/ folder was damaged or corrupt. Changing the extension to .bak after quiting Firefox let it recreate one from the backups, which was not corrupt.
Interestingly, the corrupt file was about 80 MB, vs the one day old backup that was 10 MB.
Solution adapted from instructions on the mozillaline.org website here.
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