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Why are bookmarks toolbar and bookmarks menu treated as separate entities?

Hi, In "Bookmarks in Firefox" I can't find answer on this question: Why is the bookmarks toolbar not a part of the bookmarks menu? If that would be the case, the entire … (read more)

Hi,

In "Bookmarks in Firefox" I can't find answer on this question:

Why is the bookmarks toolbar not a part of the bookmarks menu? If that would be the case, the entire bookmarks toolbar would be part of a bookmarks backup!

However, by default, Firefox handles the bookmarks menu and toolbar totally separately, and by this, the bookmark backup only includes the bookmarks menu, but not the toolbar ! this is really a pity ! For that, in order to include the bookmarks toolbar in a backup, each time I backup, I firstly need to copy all folders and bookmarks of the toolbar into an extra created folder a la "bookmarks toolbar copy" located inside the bookmarks menu folder! And this copying takes time, if you have thousands of bookmarks in the bookmark toolbar !

Would it be not much better (to avoid duplicates) to just link bookmarks and also bookmark folders from the bookmarks menu into the toolbar? In other words: no extra folder for the toolbar. And a simple backup process too !

Or, simply, why does the backup just includes the entire top folder called "All Bookmarks" (which then would include Toolbar, Menu, Other and Mobile in the backup)

Thanks !

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moving profile to a new computer

I asked a question about how to sync my new laptop with the one on this old laptop (Windows 10) The problem I had is that the codes Mozilla sent to my email. That email i… (read more)

I asked a question about how to sync my new laptop with the one on this old laptop (Windows 10) The problem I had is that the codes Mozilla sent to my email. That email is so slow that by the time I receive it, it already expired. This is the answer I got from a robot: One thing you could try is logging in to your email via a browser instead of the email app which could speed up the time it takes for you to get the email. Another solution is to manually copy the profile on your old computer putting it on a usb stick and the opening it on your new computer.

1. I always log onto my email via Firefox browser, and it still does not arrive before the code expires. 2. I went into my profile a clicked on "Copy Profile." Firefox copied my profile and asked me to rename it. I did that. Now there are two copies of my profile -- the original and the renamed one -- but my question now is: How do I copy it onto an USB drive? or how to "manually" copy my profile?

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Can't export my firefox profile folder.

I want to move my whole folder and to backup and move it to a new PC. But it says when moving a file called activity-stream.discovery_stream I need a permission from myse… (read more)

I want to move my whole folder and to backup and move it to a new PC. But it says when moving a file called activity-stream.discovery_stream I need a permission from myself.

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Firefox backing up as a docx file??

I pressed the backup button to backup my firefox stuff before switching to linux, and now that im on linux the file i was given a docx file, is completely unusable to res… (read more)

I pressed the backup button to backup my firefox stuff before switching to linux, and now that im on linux the file i was given a docx file, is completely unusable to restore anything, meaning that about a dozen of my accounts are completely lost, I did not do anything to the "backup" file besides put it into my google drive.

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