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The folder favicon on many of my bookmarks was replaced with a Gmail favicon and all of the bookmarks are missing.

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My OS is Windows 10, and I am running Firefox 56.0.2 from an update about ten days ago, and I tossed the Old Firefox Data folder after a week. This morning I discovered that the folder favicons on many of my bookmarks had been replaced with with a Gmail favicon and all of the bookmarks in those folders were missing. After rebooting the machine a couple of times and still having the problem, I decided to restore my bookmarks from a backup. However, when I tried to restore, I received the error message: "Unable to process the backup file." I have tried all fifteen stored backups and all of them throw up the same message. I installed and ran the Places Maintenance app, which found that my files were "sane." I'm not in a panic because I have all of the bookmarks Xmarks synced on my notebook, and I've turned off Xmarks on the laptop with the problem. However, this is one of a number of hassles I've recently had with Firefox, which leads me to think maybe it's time to dump this browser. Any idea what the problem is?

My OS is Windows 10, and I am running Firefox 56.0.2 from an update about ten days ago, and I tossed the Old Firefox Data folder after a week. This morning I discovered that the folder favicons on many of my bookmarks had been replaced with with a Gmail favicon and all of the bookmarks in those folders were missing. After rebooting the machine a couple of times and still having the problem, I decided to restore my bookmarks from a backup. However, when I tried to restore, I received the error message: "Unable to process the backup file." I have tried all fifteen stored backups and all of them throw up the same message. I installed and ran the Places Maintenance app, which found that my files were "sane." I'm not in a panic because I have all of the bookmarks Xmarks synced on my notebook, and I've turned off Xmarks on the laptop with the problem. However, this is one of a number of hassles I've recently had with Firefox, which leads me to think maybe it's time to dump this browser. Any idea what the problem is?