Bookmarks toolbar gets blank

Hi:
Yesteday when synchronizing xmarks the bookmark toolbar went blank. I still have the bookmarks but the ones on the bookmark toolbar can't be seen. I did a profile restore, tried the syn again same result. I disabled X marks. Today same thing happened at a different laptop with a different profile, after synching x marks the bookmark went blank.
Help???

Make sure that you do not use [[Clear Recent History]] to clear the browsing history.
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
If you keep having problems then create a new profile to have a fresh start with the Firefox 4 version.
See [[Basic Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile|Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile]]

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