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app user data is taking up too much storage

Okay, I do save a lot of bookmarks. But I'm not sure how they would ever add up to more than a gigabyte of user data. I already cleared my cache, and there's still 1.37 G… (read more)

Okay, I do save a lot of bookmarks. But I'm not sure how they would ever add up to more than a gigabyte of user data. I already cleared my cache, and there's still 1.37 GB of "user data". The Firefox app doesn't seem to have a way to display a menu selection where I can get it reveal the contents of my "user data", or UD. Interestingly, my UD on my other devices is also gigabytes in size, across devices newer and older devices, and even desktop on Mac OS.

I am loath to delete my UD on my devices without knowing exactly what I'm erasing. And in the app, regarding the bookmark function itself, it seems that all bookmarks are stored locally on the device that they are created on. It's nice that with the sync function in the desktop app that all my bookmarks across all my devices can be ACCESSED using my desktop browser. But to SAVE, those non-local bookmarks would need to be manually opened in my desktop Firefox browser and then re-bookmarked to actually be backed up. Currently, as it stands, if I lose the device or clear the UD, I lose the bookmarks. I verified this situation using my desktop Firefox browser, which shows the root directory of bookmarks which are not locally stored in the desktop Firefox browser as "_other". And, interestingly, even with sync on across all my devices, I still can only see locally stored bookmarks on my cell phone devices; I can only see all synced bookmarks using my desktop Firefox browser.

So what I need to know is, does there exist a good way to quickly save bookmarks from, say, cell phone devices to a desktop version of Firefox, with hard drive space. And, I would also like to know how to access all the data in the UD part of the mobile device and desktop apps, so that I know what data the app is saving, and therefore, what I want to keep and what I want to delete.

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please remove bookmark counter

Please add a bookmark setting to remove the counter in bookmark folders. Better still just remove it all together. It has made bookmarks harder to find and doubles the s… (read more)

Please add a bookmark setting to remove the counter in bookmark folders. Better still just remove it all together. It has made bookmarks harder to find and doubles the screen I have stuck to version 143.0 to avoid this

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want to use Spectrum e-mail for mailto handler

I tried using the Google AI to help with this and it gave me instructions to resolve the situation using developer tools, but was a dead end. I hit a roadblock trying to … (read more)

I tried using the Google AI to help with this and it gave me instructions to resolve the situation using developer tools, but was a dead end. I hit a roadblock trying to find a "uriTemplate" for another webmail service. The only one that had been on the mailto list was Gmail and I had removed it prior to starting this process, so there was no uriTemplate to be found. I tried calling Spectrum for help, but that was useless. Does anyone know another way to go about this?

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repeated need to ask firefox to be my default. Why?

Why do I have to keep signing up with you? What causes this? I"m happy with your service yet periodically, I keep getting transferred to Windows because Mozilla is not r… (read more)

Why do I have to keep signing up with you? What causes this? I"m happy with your service yet periodically, I keep getting transferred to Windows because Mozilla is not responding when I attempt to log on. Then it is necessary to go through the whole process of signing up again. Please bear in mind I am not computer literate. Thank you.

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New Thunderbird app crashes pin startup.

After the most recent Thunderbird app update from Google play, the Thunderbird app crashes instantly and constantly on start up. I did restart, uninstall, reinstall, OS u… (read more)

After the most recent Thunderbird app update from Google play, the Thunderbird app crashes instantly and constantly on start up. I did restart, uninstall, reinstall, OS update, clear cache, smart clean and still the Thunderbird app crashes instantly on start up. The screen will flash a few times as the app attempts to start. But instantly a window pops up saying the app has unfortunately shutdown. I am at witts end. I have been using Thunderbird for years. Never had this happen before. Anyone have any ideas? Google suggests getting hold of Mozilla support because this is becoming an on going issue. Please help.

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bookmarks

Out of a sudden all of my bookmarks were lost. I tried importing bookmarks i had previously saved in an HTML. Did NOT work. I tried "revert to older date bookmarks." Di… (read more)

Out of a sudden all of my bookmarks were lost. I tried importing bookmarks i had previously saved in an HTML. Did NOT work. I tried "revert to older date bookmarks." Did NOT work. I tried "import from another browser."Did NOT work. Funny thing is that with the same HTML file i extracted from mozilla when i made a copy a couple of weeks before, i was able to upload all bookmarks to Opera but not to Mozilla!!!! The image below for the non Greeks reads "Failure to process copy document".

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Setting Firefox as a default browser on Desktop,MacBook

Hi It isn't really a question, but it get to know and learn how to use Firefox efficiently before I converted from Safari to Firefox. I knew much more in Safari than in F… (read more)

Hi It isn't really a question, but it get to know and learn how to use Firefox efficiently before I converted from Safari to Firefox. I knew much more in Safari than in Firefox. Once I know more about Firefox, Firefox will be a default browser in my desktop,mac. Thanks Ted

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