Why in the hell is Firefox removing bookmark descriptions?
Was it really that much of a nuisance to keep them? I mean...what's the rational here? There are supremely helpful for some people (like me) and completely benign to the users who don't use them.
For me I moderate a forum and I use bookmarks to keep track of problem users. I bookmark their user pages and then in the description field I write what they did wrong and what to look out for from them in the future...now that information is lost and I have dozens of bookmarks of user's profiles with no context whatsoever.
I can imagine some people with thousands of bookmarks have lost a lot more.
I do not appreciate a browser deciding out of the blue to DELETE information I worked hard to compile with zero warning and zero reasons given. If Mozilla doesn't restore this asap I will just move to Chrome and never look back.
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Hi, good public speech. Volunteers are left to wonder ourselves.
I would think there is a reason and crashing is one as people kept the kitchen sink in them, so I have found out this week. Something will take it's place. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/bookmark-notes/
They are not yet lost. The info is still there, you can just not see it.
Please export your Bookmarks as HTML and you will be able to drag and drop into any browser to view. Will not be pretty but can see it.
From ver 62 Help --> About --> What's New : Removed the description field for bookmarks. Users who have stored descriptions using the field may wish to export these descriptions as html or json files, as they will be removed in a future release.
There is info in this should look at : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1232448
This is suppose to handle things I understand but no idea of it's future : https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/notes
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
The Description data is still inside Firefox user files (until Firefox 64 comes out), just that the data can't be accessed in Fx 62 & 63. Planned change that probably could be done differently or with some sort of advance warning, but the "rational" is to allow for improving new features like Containers which were slowed down by ancient "annotations" code of which that Description feature used. "annotations" probably dates back to the days of Netscape. And the main Bug report that requested the removal of that feature in Firefox goes back like 7 years. Didn't become a "big deal" until it kept Mozilla from doing what they needed to do to have Firefox "keep up with the pack", feature and speed wise.
As Pkshadow mentioned, Bookmark Notes extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/bookmark-notes/ - is one "solution".
Zotero might be another. See this for more information about using Zotero: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1233685#answer-1153934
Bookmark Notes lacks a feature to allow the already saved Description data to be easily imported via a bookmarks.html file, but that feature is being worked on for a v1.1 version of Bookmark Notes. https://github.com/emmyemi/bookmark-notes/issues/1