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my bookmark folder keeps adding 'Get Bookmark Add-Ons' as a non-working bookmark and has blown up my bookmark folder to 10MB. Why?

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I have saved only ~20 bookmarks, but when I export my bookmark file to html, it's 10mb.

There are 8500 lines of this:

<A HREF="http://en-us.add-ons.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/bookmarks/" ADD_DATE="1326396495" LAST_MODIFIED="1326396495" ICON_URI="https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net/media/img/favicon.ico" ICON="data:image/png;base64,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">Get Bookmark Add-ons</A>

Why does it continually add this?

I have saved only ~20 bookmarks, but when I export my bookmark file to html, it's 10mb. There are 8500 lines of this: <DT><A HREF="http://en-us.add-ons.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/bookmarks/" ADD_DATE="1326396495" LAST_MODIFIED="1326396495" ICON_URI="https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net/media/img/favicon.ico" ICON="data:image/png;base64,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">Get Bookmark Add-ons</A> Why does it continually add this?

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cor-el
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This can be caused by a corrupted places.sqlite with broken pointers that causes endless entries to appear.

You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.