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How to stop Sync from duplicating my Bookmarks

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Dkelly_448
Dkelly_448

When I open FF on either my Mac or PC, I find duplicate bookmarks. When I delete the dups, they appear the next day. This has happened now for the past week and I am tired of having to delete them each day!! What is going on and how do I fix this?

When I open FF on either my Mac or PC, I find duplicate bookmarks. When I delete the dups, they appear the next day. This has happened now for the past week and I am tired of having to delete them each day!! What is going on and how do I fix this?

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Was that happening with the Xmarks extension active?

Many users have reported conflicts with Sync when using Xmarks, too.

The Reset Firefox feature can fix many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your essential information.
Note: This will cause you to lose any Extensions, Open websites, and some Preferences.

To Reset Firefox do the following:

  1. Go to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information.
  2. Click the "Reset Firefox" button.
  3. Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is done, it will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish.
  4. Firefox will open with all factory defaults applied.

Further information can be found in the Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings article.

Dkelly_448
Dkelly_448 Question owner

Yes the X-Marks extension has been disabled now since I started using the FF Sync. I just removed it to make sure.

I will check again later today to see if the problem still occurs and thank you for your quick response.

DKelly

David88888
David88888

I was having this problem. After almost pulling all my hair out trying to figure out why my bookmarks keep duplicating, even after I deleted my Firefox installation, deleted my Sync account, and created a fresh installation and fresh sync account, and I still watched as my bookmarks kept duplicating even after they were totally deleted. I then disabled my WiFi to see if I could isolate the problem, and I was still watching my bookmarks duplicate in multiples of 20+ right before my eyes!!! Then, I knew the problem was much deeper than the bookmarks Syncing process. It turned out to be a conflict between Firefox Syncing bookmarks and Apple's iCloud bookmarks Add-on for Firefox. Once I removed Apple's iCloud Bookmarks Add-on, the duplicating stopped. I restored my bookmarks backup saved to my cloud account and everything is working perfect now. Thank goodness!

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