diff --git a/toolkit/components/places/src/nsPlacesDBFlush.js b/toolkit/components/places/src/nsPlacesDBFlush.js
index 8a4035e36427..c3fd9a953e74 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/places/src/nsPlacesDBFlush.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/places/src/nsPlacesDBFlush.js
@@ -200,7 +200,10 @@ nsPlacesDBFlush.prototype = {
       statements.push(this._getSyncTableStatement(aTableNames[i]));
 
     // Execute sync statements async in a transaction
-    this._db.executeAsync(statements, statements.length, this);
+    // XXX due to a bug in sqlite, we cannot wrap these in a transaction.  See
+    //     https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462379#c2 for details.
+    //this._db.executeAsync(statements, statements.length, this);
+    statements.forEach(function(stmt) stmt.executeAsync(this), this);
 
     // Finalize statements, otherwise we could get in trouble
     statements.forEach(function(stmt) stmt.finalize());