Desktop Raspberry Pi 5 desktop OS Mozilla Firefox 141.0 (aarch64) Mozilla Firefox for Raspberry Pi OS raspberrypios - 1.0: Bookmarks -> History Downloads Tags All Bookmarks ->

• Bookmarks Toolbar
• Bookmarks Menu
• Other Bookmarks (this must be auto generated by Firefox, it's empty and I have no idea what is it, it's not from me).

Phone iPhone 11 iOS 18.5 Mozilla Firefox 141.2 (29350): Bookmarks -> Desktop Bookmarks ->

• Unsorted Bookmarks (unfile This folder is empty, default not created be me)
• Bookmarks Toolbar (appears to have synced directories as desktop, but would like to vimdiff to verify data)
• Bookmarks Menu (Mozilla Firefox -> Get Help Customise Firefox Get Involved About Us) some bookmarks I must have manually added on the phone, probably not synced to desktop Bookmarks (appears to have synced directories as desktop, but would like to vimdiff to verify data)

Simply searching for the path to find Bookmarks via Terminal, so I can vimdiff the desktop files. Where are the desktop and phone Firefox Bookmarks files?

Exported Bookmarks.HTML, which includes the duplicates Bookmarks Menu and Bookmarks Toolbar.

Searching for an easy way to convert the HTML to text without all the messy HTML text. I just need 1. a simple text document so I can run it in vimdiff to: remove duplicates merge and not lose any data.

2. Then the mobile also has duplicates like Bookmarks Menu and Bookmarks Toolbar, which I run the same duplicates check merge and not lose any data.

3. Then I can run the mobile Bookmarks and the desktop Bookmarks for: duplicates merge and not lose any data.

4. Then use this result as the final file and somehow rebuild Firefox bookmarks on the Desktop and Mobile, without the initial mess recurring.

The initial cause of the mess seems to be the import to Firefox which strangely import to strange file paths and needed manual customisation. This manual customisation is really a basic and simple feature of having bookmarks in a directory so the Browser bar shows bookmarks when a blank tab is opened. This file path whatever it is, needs to be uniform and consistent with the mobile browser structure also, which I have lodged in another feature/bug request.

I've managed to use an HTML to TEXT converter: File 1 has this text above the bookmarks: Bookmarks Bookmarks Menu Mozilla Firefox Get Help Customize Firefox Get Involved About Us bookmarks here are out of any headers and seems to be quick links I needed to save on the go, on the mobile phone.

File2 has this text above bookmarks: Bookmarks Toolbar bookmarks here are standard directory/headers followed by links and so on.

File1 Bookmarks Menu has 4675 lines File2 Bookmarks Toolbar has 4655 lines

From observation, I think File1 is more desktop Bookmarks added. However File 2 mobile phone Bookmarks also also has some Bookmarks added.

Researching: 1. how to count: Flle1 how many dark blue coloured lines which are not on File2. File2 how many dark blue coloured lines which are not on File1.

2. how to merge the 2 files with some sort of vim/linux command I imagine.

Dark blue lines are unique added lines, as per screenshot.

Ok, ran a command to count unique added lines, but wasn't perfect, as the command counts any different data rather than just the dark blue lines (unique added lines).

So manually dp'ed lines from Bookmarks1 to Bookmarks2. Final copy of all bookmarks cleaned of duplicates is 4667 lines.

Importing back into Firefox Bookmarks via the import bookmarks.html file and that was a mess!

Old duplicates in Firefox Bookmarks has directories Bookmarks Toolbar and Bookmarks Menu. Unable to delete directories Bookmarks Toolbar nor Bookmarks Menu and had to manually delete all the sub directories.

Then selected All Bookmarks and ran import.html. Firefox Bookmarks now only has 5 data/bookmarks in Bookmarks Menu.

What on Earth is going on, why is Bookmarks so messy?

I would like some help in importing these cleaned bookmarks. Firefox is quite clunky and I'm looking for a useful Firefox chatroom to simply import Bookmarks, but receive error as per previous post.

All bookmarks have somehow been wiped. Even on the phone sync.

Now searching for backups.

Recovered some from Brave Bookmarks export, imported to Firefox. Firefox has a messy import with a messy structure into Bookmarks Menu, not Bookmarks Toolbar. When manually and confusingly setup correctly to Bookmarks Toolbar, this structure is inconsistent with phone Firefox, so sync duplicates Bookmarks. Cleaning up duplicates and triplicates is what led to this loss of data.

Just tried sync from Desktop to Phone which ran off the previous account with the same email that Firefox demands, sync ran and phone shows no Bookmarks?

So Phone Firefox Sync Now did nothing and Bookmarks remains empty. Desktop Firefox Sync Now did something and now phone shows Bookmarks in Bookmarks Toolbar.

Phone Firefox Add Bookmarks does nothing...no error, no new bookmark? I check not only in the correct Bookmark location Bookmarks Toolbar, but also the other empty directories in Phone -> Firefox -> 3 dot menu at bottom of browser -> Bookmarks at top -> Desktop Bookmarks -> Unsorted Bookmarks (empty) -> Bookmarks Menu -> Bookmarks (empty).

Weird file structure: Phone -> Firefox 141.2 (59350) -> Menu (3 horizontal dots at bottom) -> Bookmarks (at top) -> Unsorted Bookmarks -> empty Bookmarks Toolbar -> correctly has all bookmarks from desktop sync Bookmark Menu -> Bookmarks -> empty How to add bookmarks on the phone Firefox browser when nothing happens when tapping Add?

Hi

Are you signed into the same Mozilla Account on both devices?