I get the same bug in:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315
Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.13

After reading the above and testing out various bits and pieces I can
confirm it is related to sqlite locks over NFS.

I have not tested with NFSv4 and still use NFSv3 primarily on my
network.

To reproduce:

1: Log in on a computer with a NFS /home and start Firefox.
2: Reproduce a power fail or a situation where you hard reboot (Power off)
3: Power back on, log in and start Firefox.

Firefox behaves as described above with missing bookmarks, unusable
address bar etc.

To recover:

Close Firefox and either reboot your server or restart nfs file locking
on the server (this is not something any regular user is able to do)

It is debatable if NFS or Firefox is to blame but in my opinion -
Firefox should have better ways of utilising sqlite and its file
locking... Firefox really should detect that its not running and that
the sqlite database is locked and attempt to do something about it.

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firefox-3.0 breaks with NFS home directory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237970
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