F9Alpha Firefox Bookmarks (KDE4)

[Gerry Tool]

Bookmarks behave unexpectedly in F9Alpha Firefox

{Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012200
Fedora/3.0b3pre-0.beta2.12.nightly20080121.fc9 Minefield/3.0b3pre}

I deleted the bookmarks.html file in my .mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default
directory.  I then tried to link to my standard bookmarks.html file on
a data partition. ln didn't complain, but when I did an ls in my
.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default directory, there was no link shown.
This has always worked before.

I then copied the file to that directory, reopened firefox, and the
bookmarks were still not present.IS this a bug, or a new feature of
Firefox 3?

Thanks.

Gerry