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I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard 64-bit on a 3GHz dual quad-core Mac Pro with 6gbs of ram, and terrabytes of open space.
Within two hours of originally installing FF 5.0, i noticed that my bookmarks had stopped working (both in the bar, and in the list) – even with a right-click 'open in a new window' command. Then i realized that my address bar had stopped working also, as well as the search bar adjacent to it.
Since it is no longer possible to download FF 4.0, I was fortunate enough to find the original still resident on my machine, and reverted. That wasn't sufficient though, i also needed to delete the .plist file for everything to start working again.
Then the damn thing downloaded 5.0 in the background and reinstalled itself AGAIN; and my bookmarks stopped working AGAIN. This time i immediately reverted to 4.0 before it had a chance to start altering the .plist, and i was fine. The first thing i did, however, was to disable the auto-update feature immediately.
This version of 5.0 was refusing to be deleted however; even after a reboot, and then an option + delete. This version forced me to open up the package contents and delete the items in there in groups, until the FF 5.0 icon would permit the trash to be emptied with it being present. (And yes, I changed its permissions to permit deletion by anyone; so that issue should never have occurred either.)

A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox

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