Firefox Bookmarks radically changed.
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Firefox Bookmarks radically changed.
Firefox updates itself now and then and has been nothing short of a super tool for years. I'm at a loss.
I was moving some bookmarks about about so may have been at fault, but I don't think so, and there are loads of folk losing bookmark things on forums.
In my case I live on bookmarks - hundreds of them. All the PPRuNe regulars, Science, All my Banks, etc., etc. One of my main tools is going to Bookmarks tab and it offers me lots of things - but two in particular. Well, it did, but not now. it used to be, Bookmark this Tab and Edit this Bookmark. I would always have the new bookmark go to the Bookmarks Tool Bar and then drag it to its new home at my leisure.
(In fact, because my bar is full, it would go to the bottom of the Show more bookmarks pop-down, accessed by the two arrows to the right of the bar. I'd find the new ones at the bottom of the list.)
If I could even find Bookmark this Tab, I could probably drag it back home, but it's vanished. I've even gone back to an earlier date (firefox) but to my astonishment, it's not showing.
One day, "Bookmark" was gone. All the rest are there (I hope) I'll put it back, thinks I. Aaaaagh! I can put a couple of 'Bookmarks' tabs there, but nothing I can find gives me that vital - used every day - "Bookmark this Tab" and the Edit one.
Any ideas?
I was moving some bookmarks about about so may have been at fault, but I don't think so, and there are loads of folk losing bookmark things on forums.
In my case I live on bookmarks - hundreds of them. All the PPRuNe regulars, Science, All my Banks, etc., etc. One of my main tools is going to Bookmarks tab and it offers me lots of things - but two in particular. Well, it did, but not now. it used to be, Bookmark this Tab and Edit this Bookmark. I would always have the new bookmark go to the Bookmarks Tool Bar and then drag it to its new home at my leisure.
(In fact, because my bar is full, it would go to the bottom of the Show more bookmarks pop-down, accessed by the two arrows to the right of the bar. I'd find the new ones at the bottom of the list.)
If I could even find Bookmark this Tab, I could probably drag it back home, but it's vanished. I've even gone back to an earlier date (firefox) but to my astonishment, it's not showing.
One day, "Bookmark" was gone. All the rest are there (I hope) I'll put it back, thinks I. Aaaaagh! I can put a couple of 'Bookmarks' tabs there, but nothing I can find gives me that vital - used every day - "Bookmark this Tab" and the Edit one.
Any ideas?
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You may be on a different version of Firefox as I don't recall any major changes to the Bookmarks workings over the past months or so.
To create a Bookmark from your current tab, hit Ctrl-D. See if that works and restores a semblance of normality. It may not of course. There is a 'Manage Bookmarks' window that you can also access by hitting Ctrl-Shift-O. Once in that window, I think you can click on any bookmark and you will see the properties of it at bottom right. Edit these at will.
I can find all of these by using the 'hamburger' menu that is at rop right of my Firefox window (the three horizontal lines that somewhat resemble the structure of a hamburger). Open that and click on Bookmarks in there.
All of this based on Firefox on a Win11 machine. If you are on a different OS or older Windows version, it may all look different.
To create a Bookmark from your current tab, hit Ctrl-D. See if that works and restores a semblance of normality. It may not of course. There is a 'Manage Bookmarks' window that you can also access by hitting Ctrl-Shift-O. Once in that window, I think you can click on any bookmark and you will see the properties of it at bottom right. Edit these at will.
I can find all of these by using the 'hamburger' menu that is at rop right of my Firefox window (the three horizontal lines that somewhat resemble the structure of a hamburger). Open that and click on Bookmarks in there.
All of this based on Firefox on a Win11 machine. If you are on a different OS or older Windows version, it may all look different.
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After moving to my new address my computer was a nightmare. I had bookmarks either vanishing or simply not opening when clicked. Had to use Chrome in order to get everything up to date bookmark wise.
Discovered once I had updated Windies 11 and the Intel graphics...both of which managed to go out of date over the three days tween turning everything off at the old address and turning everything on again at the new address...and updated Firefox (I use Private Windows on FireFox), plus updating half a dozen or so drivers and doing some hefty swearing in the process (I have a love/hate relationship with my computer...it loves to hate me), the computer finally started to behave itself normally again.
Current version of Firefox that is behaving is 142.0.1 (64 bit) is working perfectly (touches some actual wood). All in all it took me about 3.5 hours to get the computer and Firefox to speak to one another properly again.
Discovered once I had updated Windies 11 and the Intel graphics...both of which managed to go out of date over the three days tween turning everything off at the old address and turning everything on again at the new address...and updated Firefox (I use Private Windows on FireFox), plus updating half a dozen or so drivers and doing some hefty swearing in the process (I have a love/hate relationship with my computer...it loves to hate me), the computer finally started to behave itself normally again.
Current version of Firefox that is behaving is 142.0.1 (64 bit) is working perfectly (touches some actual wood). All in all it took me about 3.5 hours to get the computer and Firefox to speak to one another properly again.
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I've been running Firefox since its first release, and its progenitor, Netscape, before that. On several occasions, I've lost all of my bookmarks, but they are easily restored with a few simple steps. My biggest complaint is that the "Edit Bookmark" is adjacent to the Delete Bookmark" command. It's the same with "Edit Folder" and "Delete Folder". One false move and bang zoom, bookmarks are vaporized!
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I use Firefox for Linux when sites refuse the privacy settings that Waterfox imposes. This means Sainsbury's, Tesco, the Nationwide, ebay, Waitrose, and Barclaycard. I have hundreds of bookmarks for Waterfox under Linux. I back them up whenever I remember to.
Waterfox is security-driven (it deletes cookies when you leave the site, rather than at the end of the session), is faster than Firefox, and is 100% stable. Give it a try. It's free (at least under UNIX/BSD/Linux).
If I'm denied access to a site, typically Russian ones, I use Tor Browser. This is even slower than Firefox, but penetrates everything except the Great Firewall of China. I can't read Chinese, I can read Russian, so this is fine for me. I get to read the dissident sites. A lot more Russians are against the war than you might think from Western media.
Waterfox is security-driven (it deletes cookies when you leave the site, rather than at the end of the session), is faster than Firefox, and is 100% stable. Give it a try. It's free (at least under UNIX/BSD/Linux).
If I'm denied access to a site, typically Russian ones, I use Tor Browser. This is even slower than Firefox, but penetrates everything except the Great Firewall of China. I can't read Chinese, I can read Russian, so this is fine for me. I get to read the dissident sites. A lot more Russians are against the war than you might think from Western media.
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This doesn't happen automatically under Linux. You need to back up your bookmarks manually. It only takes seconds.
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The same with Firefox under Windows. I Backup my bookmarks regularly on Windows an Ubuntu,
I also use a Portable version of firefox on an encrypted drive when travelling, so that I have all my Bookmarks and Site Logins/Passwords on hand.
https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
Well handy.
I also use a Portable version of firefox on an encrypted drive when travelling, so that I have all my Bookmarks and Site Logins/Passwords on hand.
https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
Well handy.
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Right click on the tab & Bookmark tab should be there. Clicking on the star in the right edge of the address bar will bookmark the tab. You can even drag the tab to your desired bookmark location without first bookmarking it & it will be saved there. Right clicking on a bookmark gives the option to edit or delete a bookmark.
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Thanks for the answers everyone.
Jhieminga, I'd done the control D thing half-heartedly. It does work, and I tried it again just now. It gives the menu (I think) or much the same. Indeed, they appear in the toolbar overflow pop-down right at the bottom. I put it in an existing tab, 'Genealogy' as it happens, and then did a Ctrl D while on the same screen. Indeed, the little box that appears now has Edit Bookmark at the top. So I've got the functions I want, but not my old computer back. Fussy? Well, filling in forms and secret key functions are a problem. I don't know where a lot of the letters are.
Yes, when I say this, I'm not kidding.
About half the letters on my keyboard are worn off. I wrote my novel on this Logitech nice flat Ps2 plugged item. Millions of keystrokes. I touch-type and find that my muscle memory is a better speller than the plodding old me. This skill leads me astray. I gave a 1790 word answer to Worst Car thread t'other day. Sad.
Even more bizarre, I have an exact duplicate replacement keyboard I bought at the same time. It's in the cupboard awaiting the need to replace this one. Being nearly 86 makes this saving for the future kind of daft, but hey . . . I was born in the war and we saved things. Make do and mend. I didn't actually mend this keyboard but eating Nature Valley biscuits did slow it down a bit, and when I cleaned it, picking out all those bits was more satisfying than sex, and know what? I got enough bits to make a whole biscuit.
Where was I? I need to make Ctrl D function as a bookmark on the Bookmark Toolbar. Only then will I be slightly happy. True happiness will come when I teach Ccleaner to behave in a decent manner. They've stiffed me for nearly 40 quid, and I'll open a new thread about the insane lengths they go to to stop one cancelling the trial. I've promoted their company since they started so I'm rather hurt.
I used to back up Bookmarks and KeePass. Vital, that. Then I forgot one could do that and only noticed the files when I was staring at my four drives and wondering just who will venture into the files when I'm gone. I once forgot the password to my KeyPass. I knew if I remained calm, it would come back to me. It's hard to remain calm when you've lost the key to hundreds of passwords.
Prop Swinger. One does not yet have a tab at that stage. Well, Google perhaps since I'm searching with it. Let's see. It lets one Bookmark, but then it does it again creating infinite quantities. No Edit the second time. BUT WAIT. If I right click on my new creations, be they in the overflow pop-down or a new place under an existing tab, it lets me select Edit Bookmark. Ooooh. A bit of self discipline and I could live with that.
Bookmark tab erased.
Jhieminga, I'd done the control D thing half-heartedly. It does work, and I tried it again just now. It gives the menu (I think) or much the same. Indeed, they appear in the toolbar overflow pop-down right at the bottom. I put it in an existing tab, 'Genealogy' as it happens, and then did a Ctrl D while on the same screen. Indeed, the little box that appears now has Edit Bookmark at the top. So I've got the functions I want, but not my old computer back. Fussy? Well, filling in forms and secret key functions are a problem. I don't know where a lot of the letters are.
Yes, when I say this, I'm not kidding.
About half the letters on my keyboard are worn off. I wrote my novel on this Logitech nice flat Ps2 plugged item. Millions of keystrokes. I touch-type and find that my muscle memory is a better speller than the plodding old me. This skill leads me astray. I gave a 1790 word answer to Worst Car thread t'other day. Sad.
Even more bizarre, I have an exact duplicate replacement keyboard I bought at the same time. It's in the cupboard awaiting the need to replace this one. Being nearly 86 makes this saving for the future kind of daft, but hey . . . I was born in the war and we saved things. Make do and mend. I didn't actually mend this keyboard but eating Nature Valley biscuits did slow it down a bit, and when I cleaned it, picking out all those bits was more satisfying than sex, and know what? I got enough bits to make a whole biscuit.
Where was I? I need to make Ctrl D function as a bookmark on the Bookmark Toolbar. Only then will I be slightly happy. True happiness will come when I teach Ccleaner to behave in a decent manner. They've stiffed me for nearly 40 quid, and I'll open a new thread about the insane lengths they go to to stop one cancelling the trial. I've promoted their company since they started so I'm rather hurt.
I used to back up Bookmarks and KeePass. Vital, that. Then I forgot one could do that and only noticed the files when I was staring at my four drives and wondering just who will venture into the files when I'm gone. I once forgot the password to my KeyPass. I knew if I remained calm, it would come back to me. It's hard to remain calm when you've lost the key to hundreds of passwords.
Prop Swinger. One does not yet have a tab at that stage. Well, Google perhaps since I'm searching with it. Let's see. It lets one Bookmark, but then it does it again creating infinite quantities. No Edit the second time. BUT WAIT. If I right click on my new creations, be they in the overflow pop-down or a new place under an existing tab, it lets me select Edit Bookmark. Ooooh. A bit of self discipline and I could live with that.
Bookmark tab erased.
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Have to confess I'm slightly confused as to whether you've lost all your bookmarks, or just the ability to edit/move them, however what I'd do before anything else, as others have said, is back up what you have. From there you could try restarting your machine (actually turn it completely off, wait for a few minutes, then start).
If that didn't work I'd also backup your Firefox profile directory, following which an attempt at reinstalling or otherwise working with the profiles might restore whatever is missing (the reason for first backing up the directory is so that if you mess up and completely break Firefox you can restore it).
While I'm not able to specifically help with your M$ installation, in the distribution of Linux+FF I'm using there is a 'places.sqlite' file inside the default profile directory - it is this file that contains bookmarks. In my case it's ~5MB, and I don't have a lot of bookmarks, if you can find yours it may be worth looking to see what size it is, from your description I'd expect it to be somewhat more than this .. if not then they may be lost. That said there's also a 'bookmarkbackups' directory under the default profile, and if you've done any sort of raw file backup you may be able to directly restore the sqlite file, if not just import an earlier html or json backup of your bookmarks.
FP.
If that didn't work I'd also backup your Firefox profile directory, following which an attempt at reinstalling or otherwise working with the profiles might restore whatever is missing (the reason for first backing up the directory is so that if you mess up and completely break Firefox you can restore it).
While I'm not able to specifically help with your M$ installation, in the distribution of Linux+FF I'm using there is a 'places.sqlite' file inside the default profile directory - it is this file that contains bookmarks. In my case it's ~5MB, and I don't have a lot of bookmarks, if you can find yours it may be worth looking to see what size it is, from your description I'd expect it to be somewhat more than this .. if not then they may be lost. That said there's also a 'bookmarkbackups' directory under the default profile, and if you've done any sort of raw file backup you may be able to directly restore the sqlite file, if not just import an earlier html or json backup of your bookmarks.
FP.
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No, I'd forgotten about it years ago. Everything is in years now, even getting out of the door with hearing aids that work.
But worse, I'd forgotten. At the same time, probably, History or histories. Just gone. I used that a lot.
But worse, I'd forgotten. At the same time, probably, History or histories. Just gone. I used that a lot.
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Bit confused, but here is my bit.
To bookmark a website you are on, left click the white star in the web address box (RHS)
If you have lost the shorcut from your main toolbar, right click on the toolbar, select Customise and you can then drag the icon back to the toolbar.
Hope this helps.
To bookmark a website you are on, left click the white star in the web address box (RHS)
If you have lost the shorcut from your main toolbar, right click on the toolbar, select Customise and you can then drag the icon back to the toolbar.
Hope this helps.
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Up to the three bars seemed to be the trick. Customise tool bar. Hooray! Masses of things you can put on your toolbar. There's histories. But where to drag it? Wherever I drug it, it's there, in some kind of mysterious place that humans can't get to. I can't get it, or another, back. Histories, is history. Gotta larf.
So, I'll do it with Bookmarks. Wiser this time, I right clicked and selected the Toolbar. Bookmarks may well have joined Histories, but it's gone. But perhaps another day. Maybe I'll awaken, and all this will be a bad dream.
Worse still, when I click the three bars again, at the top, instead of Customise Tool Bar, there is my name. I know my name, though that is probably temporary. Sigh.
So, I'll do it with Bookmarks. Wiser this time, I right clicked and selected the Toolbar. Bookmarks may well have joined Histories, but it's gone. But perhaps another day. Maybe I'll awaken, and all this will be a bad dream.
Worse still, when I click the three bars again, at the top, instead of Customise Tool Bar, there is my name. I know my name, though that is probably temporary. Sigh.
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If you want to customise the toolbar you need to right click on the toolbar, not on the hamburger menu. Dragging a particular icon to the toolbar should position the icon where you dropped it.
It's really hard to help you because we don't understand what it is that your problem is. I have used Firefox for 20+ years & have never ever seen a 'Bookmarks tab'; if I have a web page open there are multiple ways to bookmark it, see above. Once bookmarked it can be edited, re-postioned, whatever.
The only thing that I can think of is that you have managed to close the Menu Bar, in which case right click at the very top of a web page & left click Menu Bar option.
It's really hard to help you because we don't understand what it is that your problem is. I have used Firefox for 20+ years & have never ever seen a 'Bookmarks tab'; if I have a web page open there are multiple ways to bookmark it, see above. Once bookmarked it can be edited, re-postioned, whatever.
The only thing that I can think of is that you have managed to close the Menu Bar, in which case right click at the very top of a web page & left click Menu Bar option.
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I'VE BEEN VERY LAX IN TERMINOLOGY. SORRY. 
No, the rest are fine. 18 plus FOLDERS containing Bookmarks. Because the folders fill the toolbar, all overflow is accessed via the double arrow under the hamburger.
It is a FOLDER I called Bookmarks that has gone missing, with many items. When that Folder is popped down, the first items were in a box. "Bookmark this (current whatever)" When I'd bookmarked the item, that wording at the top of the folder changed by itself to Edit this Bookmark etc., It was very handy and used every day for as long as I can remember.
The thing is, I didn't build that specialist item in the Bookmark folder. The wanted items were in boxes before getting to the long list of Bookmarks which I don't use. In other words, Firefox must have designed that pop-down. No right clicking, and instantly reachable. And gone.
It happens that I send everything to the toolbar and it overflows into the pop-down under the double arrows. I do this because dragging from there can be fast and to the literal point.
Now that I've managed to lose Histories from the main library of symbols I know that I must spend more time on keeping up with the system. While attempting this, I've lost a paper on some of the complexities of outer electrons in complex atoms. It was a good paper. And gone.
I too have been using Firefox for decades. However, I've been very aware lately that I've just slumped at my PC and done only what interests me at the moment and not kept up with maintenance. I was very keen once. I know this computer is not up to much - to get more memory would mean throwing the existing 4gb away. I'd guess that's why I got the Motherboard and Chip for a song. I'd rather thought this PC would last me out.
Indeed, a friend has been caught out, a very late i7 and endless RAM and it still doesn't qualify for W11. I didn't want to be messed around like that.
I'm going to start a new thread on Ccleaner. What's happened is very unpleasant as I can only assume their actions are deliberately obstructive. Hoards of complaints substantiate my concerns. I've supported and promoted Ccleaner since they started, and it's scant reward.
No, the rest are fine. 18 plus FOLDERS containing Bookmarks. Because the folders fill the toolbar, all overflow is accessed via the double arrow under the hamburger.
It is a FOLDER I called Bookmarks that has gone missing, with many items. When that Folder is popped down, the first items were in a box. "Bookmark this (current whatever)" When I'd bookmarked the item, that wording at the top of the folder changed by itself to Edit this Bookmark etc., It was very handy and used every day for as long as I can remember.
The thing is, I didn't build that specialist item in the Bookmark folder. The wanted items were in boxes before getting to the long list of Bookmarks which I don't use. In other words, Firefox must have designed that pop-down. No right clicking, and instantly reachable. And gone.
It happens that I send everything to the toolbar and it overflows into the pop-down under the double arrows. I do this because dragging from there can be fast and to the literal point.
Now that I've managed to lose Histories from the main library of symbols I know that I must spend more time on keeping up with the system. While attempting this, I've lost a paper on some of the complexities of outer electrons in complex atoms. It was a good paper. And gone.
I too have been using Firefox for decades. However, I've been very aware lately that I've just slumped at my PC and done only what interests me at the moment and not kept up with maintenance. I was very keen once. I know this computer is not up to much - to get more memory would mean throwing the existing 4gb away. I'd guess that's why I got the Motherboard and Chip for a song. I'd rather thought this PC would last me out.
Indeed, a friend has been caught out, a very late i7 and endless RAM and it still doesn't qualify for W11. I didn't want to be messed around like that.
I'm going to start a new thread on Ccleaner. What's happened is very unpleasant as I can only assume their actions are deliberately obstructive. Hoards of complaints substantiate my concerns. I've supported and promoted Ccleaner since they started, and it's scant reward.
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Thanks for the answers everyone.
Jhieminga, I'd done the control D thing half-heartedly. It does work, and I tried it again just now. It gives the menu (I think) or much the same. Indeed, they appear in the toolbar overflow pop-down right at the bottom. I put it in an existing tab, 'Genealogy' as it happens, and then did a Ctrl D while on the same screen. Indeed, the little box that appears now has Edit Bookmark at the top. So I've got the functions I want, but not my old computer back. Fussy? Well, filling in forms and secret key functions are a problem. I don't know where a lot of the letters are.
Yes, when I say this, I'm not kidding.
About half the letters on my keyboard are worn off. I wrote my novel on this Logitech nice flat Ps2 plugged item. Millions of keystrokes. I touch-type and find that my muscle memory is a better speller than the plodding old me. This skill leads me astray. I gave a 1790 word answer to Worst Car thread t'other day. Sad.
Even more bizarre, I have an exact duplicate replacement keyboard I bought at the same time. It's in the cupboard awaiting the need to replace this one. Being nearly 86 makes this saving for the future kind of daft, but hey . . . I was born in the war and we saved things. Make do and mend. I didn't actually mend this keyboard but eating Nature Valley biscuits did slow it down a bit, and when I cleaned it, picking out all those bits was more satisfying than sex, and know what? I got enough bits to make a whole biscuit.
Where was I? I need to make Ctrl D function as a bookmark on the Bookmark Toolbar. Only then will I be slightly happy. True happiness will come when I teach Ccleaner to behave in a decent manner. They've stiffed me for nearly 40 quid, and I'll open a new thread about the insane lengths they go to to stop one cancelling the trial. I've promoted their company since they started so I'm rather hurt.
I used to back up Bookmarks and KeePass. Vital, that. Then I forgot one could do that and only noticed the files when I was staring at my four drives and wondering just who will venture into the files when I'm gone. I once forgot the password to my KeyPass. I knew if I remained calm, it would come back to me. It's hard to remain calm when you've lost the key to hundreds of passwords.
Prop Swinger. One does not yet have a tab at that stage. Well, Google perhaps since I'm searching with it. Let's see. It lets one Bookmark, but then it does it again creating infinite quantities. No Edit the second time. BUT WAIT. If I right click on my new creations, be they in the overflow pop-down or a new place under an existing tab, it lets me select Edit Bookmark. Ooooh. A bit of self discipline and I could live with that.
Bookmark tab erased.
Jhieminga, I'd done the control D thing half-heartedly. It does work, and I tried it again just now. It gives the menu (I think) or much the same. Indeed, they appear in the toolbar overflow pop-down right at the bottom. I put it in an existing tab, 'Genealogy' as it happens, and then did a Ctrl D while on the same screen. Indeed, the little box that appears now has Edit Bookmark at the top. So I've got the functions I want, but not my old computer back. Fussy? Well, filling in forms and secret key functions are a problem. I don't know where a lot of the letters are.
Yes, when I say this, I'm not kidding.
About half the letters on my keyboard are worn off. I wrote my novel on this Logitech nice flat Ps2 plugged item. Millions of keystrokes. I touch-type and find that my muscle memory is a better speller than the plodding old me. This skill leads me astray. I gave a 1790 word answer to Worst Car thread t'other day. Sad.
Even more bizarre, I have an exact duplicate replacement keyboard I bought at the same time. It's in the cupboard awaiting the need to replace this one. Being nearly 86 makes this saving for the future kind of daft, but hey . . . I was born in the war and we saved things. Make do and mend. I didn't actually mend this keyboard but eating Nature Valley biscuits did slow it down a bit, and when I cleaned it, picking out all those bits was more satisfying than sex, and know what? I got enough bits to make a whole biscuit.
Where was I? I need to make Ctrl D function as a bookmark on the Bookmark Toolbar. Only then will I be slightly happy. True happiness will come when I teach Ccleaner to behave in a decent manner. They've stiffed me for nearly 40 quid, and I'll open a new thread about the insane lengths they go to to stop one cancelling the trial. I've promoted their company since they started so I'm rather hurt.
I used to back up Bookmarks and KeePass. Vital, that. Then I forgot one could do that and only noticed the files when I was staring at my four drives and wondering just who will venture into the files when I'm gone. I once forgot the password to my KeyPass. I knew if I remained calm, it would come back to me. It's hard to remain calm when you've lost the key to hundreds of passwords.
Prop Swinger. One does not yet have a tab at that stage. Well, Google perhaps since I'm searching with it. Let's see. It lets one Bookmark, but then it does it again creating infinite quantities. No Edit the second time. BUT WAIT. If I right click on my new creations, be they in the overflow pop-down or a new place under an existing tab, it lets me select Edit Bookmark. Ooooh. A bit of self discipline and I could live with that.
Bookmark tab erased.
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I agree - I'm running Linux Mint (Ubuntu under the hood) and I can access windows disks on other PCs without problems. There's very little I need that can't be done on Linux, but I also have a Windows 7 PC on the network that can't access the internet (no default gateway) which I can remote onto to run Office and games. Libre Office is fine for opening Office files, but I wouldn't want to try to do work on spreadsheets, Visio or mail merges with it.
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While I'm in complete agreement re the many benefits of Linux it probably doesn't help Loose rivets with Firefox right at this juncture ...
So in trying to interpret the problem and having thought about this I wonder if the issue has been caused by the latest 'AI' changes to FF? I've got all that stuff turned off and/or am using a version that doesn't have it (and I don't really use bookmarks anyway) but I've read some pretty scathing things about it. To that end I wonder if using the ESR (Extended Support Release) version of FF might rollback any unwelcome changes and address the problem?
If you wanted to try the ESR version (currently 115) I think it should just be a matter of downloading from here (select the right file for your platform) and installing. I say 'I think' because I don't use M$ products and so can't even test, let alone have any platform specific knowledge, but I'm reasonable sure it has 'just worked' in the past for people when I've suggested this. Doing this may bring back your anticipated modus operandi and remove any later unwanted 'features' present in the version of FF you're currently using.
As with any upgrade/change I recommend backing up the program directory before installing, not entirely sure where this is on M$ but the Interweb tells me that '\Users\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\\Profiles\' is a contender, and you can access it following this advice.
FP.
So in trying to interpret the problem and having thought about this I wonder if the issue has been caused by the latest 'AI' changes to FF? I've got all that stuff turned off and/or am using a version that doesn't have it (and I don't really use bookmarks anyway) but I've read some pretty scathing things about it. To that end I wonder if using the ESR (Extended Support Release) version of FF might rollback any unwelcome changes and address the problem?
If you wanted to try the ESR version (currently 115) I think it should just be a matter of downloading from here (select the right file for your platform) and installing. I say 'I think' because I don't use M$ products and so can't even test, let alone have any platform specific knowledge, but I'm reasonable sure it has 'just worked' in the past for people when I've suggested this. Doing this may bring back your anticipated modus operandi and remove any later unwanted 'features' present in the version of FF you're currently using.
As with any upgrade/change I recommend backing up the program directory before installing, not entirely sure where this is on M$ but the Interweb tells me that '\Users\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\\Profiles\' is a contender, and you can access it following this advice.
FP.
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I notice no discernible functional difference between v142 on Linux and 115 ESR on an old Win 7 box (see disclaimer above).
I use Firefox's synchronisation tool to store logins & passwords and replicate history, bookmarks, favourites, etc. across both devices and also to my laptop.
I use Firefox's synchronisation tool to store logins & passwords and replicate history, bookmarks, favourites, etc. across both devices and also to my laptop.
