Dear friends,

faced the same. Obviously, the mozilla gui engine XUL hangs at some
point due to the buggy .sqlite file.

--DIAGNOSE IT

[Ctrl+Shift+J]
Brings up the Error Console which complains of errors in various *.js files.

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 
(NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]"  nsresult: 
"0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: 
file:///usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/components/nsBrowserGlue.js :: bg__initPlaces :: 
line 386"  data: no]
Source File: file:///usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/components/nsBrowserGlue.js
Line: 386

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure
code: 0x8007000e (NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)
[nsIDocShellHistory.useGlobalHistory]"  nsresult: "0x8007000e
(NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://browser/content/browser.js :: prepareForStartup :: line 763"
data: no]

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure
code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)
[nsIJSCID.getService** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)]"  nsresult:
"0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
file:///usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.1/modules/utils.js :: anonymous :: line
105"  data: no]

[BASH]

OPENING firefox in from the shell gave some stdout/stderr messages:

** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
modinfo: could not open output: No such device
modinfo: could not open output: No such device

--SOLVE IT

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd .mozilla/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mozilla$ find -name 'places.sqlite'
./firefox/nde01nmg.default/places.sqlite
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mozilla$ mv ./firefox/nde01nmg.default/places.sqlite 
./firefox/nde01nmg.default/places.sqlite.orig

-- 
firefox-3.0, not saving history or bookmarks, the navigations buttons (foward, 
back,etc) does not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224985
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