Why is there no way to tell Firefox WHERE to put a new bookmark???
It used to be when I wanted to bookmark a site, I would click on the bookmark pull-down, choose "bookmark this page", and a context menu would appear to ask me where I wanted to place the bookmark. Now that option is gone. I have a LOT of bookmark folders. Am I going to have to hunt down every bookmark after I make it, in order to place it in its folder? This is a WASTE OF TIME. Why are we not given the option to indicating where we want them to go BEFORE they're made anymore?
Is there something I'm not seeing here? Is there a trick to this? Does anyone understand the reason behind this change? Because I don't see anything reasonable in taking away a simple functionality and forcing the user to spend time doing what the browser should have done in the first place.
Help?
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The current behavior in Firefox 47+ releases is to show the "Edit This Bookmark" dialog when you create a new bookmark by clicking the star or use "Bookmark This Page". If you click the star to bookmark the tab then click the star a second time to close the dialog or wait about 3 seconds until the dialog closes automatically.
The current behavior when you click the star is to bookmark the current tab in the Unsorted folder and open the doorhanger automatically. You can click the star twice to bookmark the current tab to the Unsorted folder. The second click will close the doorhanger that opens automatically in Firefox 47+ releases. The doorhanger closes automatically after a few seconds when you do not do anything if you click the star to bookmark the tab.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Appearance
- Do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Safe Mode start window
Modified by cor-el
Thee have not really been any important changes recently. By default the bookmarks go in to the unsorted folder.
When you click on the bookmark star the V at the end of the folder field gives a dropdown of the last 5 folders you used. The V furtther to the right allows you to browse the completer folder tree.
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Does reading & watching those articles help you resolve this ?
No, I'm confused. You've given me two different answers, along with a bunch of technical information which is frankly gibberish to me. (I don't know what a "doorhanger" is. "Current behavior" is not defined in your answers. Etc.) But I think maybe what I'm getting here is that Mozilla decided to complicate a functional process by forcing the user to take extra steps that are completely unnecessary. Or has this been changed again in a newer version? Has the ask-first-then-create functionality been restored in a newer version? Is that what you're trying to tell me? Because the boilerplate is really getting in the way of my understanding your answers.
This is what I think you're telling me so far:
I have to click the star. Then I have to click the star AGAIN to tell the browser where to put the bookmark I just made. If I wait longer than three seconds, I have to go separately to the bookmarks menu, find the bookmark, and then move it (if I can get it to move). All this instead of the browser just asking where to create the bookmark in the first place.
Am I correct here? Please, no tech speak. Just tell me if that's right. If I'm going to be forced to take unnecessary steps, I at least want to know I'm taking them correctly. And if I can remedy this by going to a newer version, I'd like to know that too.
Just please, tell me SIMPLY. Thank you.
I see that you still have Firefox 46, so you still have the old behavior and have to click the star twice to get the edit this bookmark dialog that allows to move the new bookmark to another folder. "Bookmarks > Bookmark This Page" should open the dialog in all cases.
In the current Firefox 47 release you would only have to click the star once.
The System Details list next to the question shows that you run an older Firefox 47 version that is no longer supported with security updates. Always update Firefox and Add-ons to the latest versions to get all security fixes.
Please update to the current Firefox 47.0.1 release.
- Help -> About Firefox