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Hi there, I would like to keep my bookmarks and all the profile in the new firefox. How can I do that? And I habe the problem that I need to sign every time I open the browser. Is that the normal procedure?

Regards from Germany, Robert

3 February 2021

I use a toolbar. Sorry, I'm old fashioned. When I install a new linux system, the first thing I do is change firefox to show the toolbar. There is a 'Bookmarks' item on the toolbar. When you click it, it gives you a menu of several options, including 'Bookmark This Page Ctrl+D'.

Until recently, clicking on that option opened a popup that allowed you to select a sub-folder to put the bookmark in. That was extremely useful because a flat list gets very long very quickly. You could of course just click on save bookmark in the popup and it gets added to the flat list, or, as I do, you could first select a sub-folder.

Now, clicking 'Bookmark This Page Ctrl+D' results in the bookmark immediately being saved to the flat list and a little alert momentarily pops up declaring 'saved to library'. Apparently 'library' is the same as 'other bookmarks'. How very clear (sarcasm). In addition to not knowing where the bookmark actually is, I now have to manually move it to the desired sub-folder with several other clicks. How convenient (sarcasm).

I want the old behavior back. How do I get it?

By the way, I am very old fashioned. I don't register with websites, even firefox. I used an email blackhole to sign up. I will come back here periodically (once a day) to see if there are any useful answers or questions asking for clarification. I've bookmarked this page, so it should be easy. When I'm done, I'll disappear forever, thank you very much.

I am VERY VERY ATTACHED to my bookmarks in my previous Firefox browser. Somehow Chrome ended up syncing its old set of bookmarks into Firefox which is a huge downgrade and loss of information. Is there a way for me to retrieve the previous set of bookmarks that I had spent so much time adding to?

I just upgraded to v. 85 (win 10 desktop). None of my bookmarks are showing. I tried using another profile, and restoring from a backup, but neither worked. Is there a way to find my old bookmarks?

I lost all my bookmarks when I updated to the latest Firefox version... How do I recover them? There is not even a "library" tab in the bookmarks menu or toolbar... Thank you for your help.

My computer crashed and the OS had to be reinstalled. Bookmarks that I had saved for the last 6 to 8 months seemed to have disappeared. What messed up for me to have lost those bookmarks or how do I recover them? Thanks for your suggestions.

My new folders are underneath my unsorted bookmarks. How do I move them to the top, to be with my other older folders. All the articles are only about how to move bookmarks. I've done that already.

I have limited screen space and any time I add a bookmark to the bookmarks toolbar it opens and then I have to go to bookmarks and hide it again, is there any way I can stop this from popping up until I want to see it?

When I installed Firefox all my favorites from Windows came over as bookmarks. I want to separate these some how, because I don't want 50 bookmarks. What's the best way.

Michael

Hello guys,

first of all: Sorry for my bad english. Im trying to explain as well as I can.

I activated in Settings, that I only get suggestions from my bookmark (and not from Google etc.)

I entered on the bookmark a full reflink on Amazon (https://www.amazon.de/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&linkCode=ur2&site-redirect=de&tag=wwwtwitcht0b2-21)

But when I enter on the bar Am.. the first suggestion is always https://www.amazon.de/ and not https://www.amazon.de/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1638&creative=19454&linkCode=ur2&site-redirect=de&tag=wwwtwitcht0b2-21.

Even if I dont saved https://www.amazon.de/ . This happens with everysite that the main url is shown in first place, but not the one which i saved (and wanted to open).

Is there any solution?

Thank you for your time.

Hi all, all my bookmarks are inactive. they still show up in the bookmark toolbar but don't work anymore. they dont show the individual icon anymore, just the basic common one. when I right click on them they dont show properties anymore ...

Bookmarks keep on getting broken. It first happened after I did a Firefox update. I recreated bookmarks again and then next day they were blocked again. Not all bookmarks only the ones with the world icon. I have attached example of what the broken bookmarks look like and that nothing is displaying in Bookmark properties. What could be the problem? Help please.

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to find in which folder a specific bookmark is contained ? I can do a search on the "Show all Bookmarks" library but it only shows the URL without the folder. In Chrome there is a useful feature which let you easily highlight the location. It's very strange that isn't possible in Firefox.

There is an archived post here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1161879 but the tricky workaround is not acceptable for me. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance Stefano

I use the Collections feature on Firefox mobile (Android, v85.1.3).

Is this feature available in any form in the desktop version? (I'm running v84.0.2 under Linux).

Can mobile collections be synced to the desktop?

hi,

I have a new install of firefox (78.7.1esr) on a new Apple Mac (10.15.7 Catalina). I used sync to sync bookmarks from an ubuntu install (85.0.1) onto the Mac.

The bookmarks arrived. They are visible on the bookmarks toolbar, bookmarks menu, and bookmarks / show all bookmarks. I can add new bookmarks using drag and drop, or by the bookmarks menu options. These bookmarks can be seen in the Bookmarks / Show All Bookmarks menu. But they do not appear in the bookmarks toolbar. It's as if there are 2 sets both started from the same sync.

• Bookmarks added by drag and drop visible through the toolbar
• Those added with add bookmark or show all bookmarks within the toolbar folder do not appear on the toolbar.

I've now got what looks like 2 sets that are drifting out of sync on the same latptop.

thanks for any help.

information under header to import bookmarks from google chrome or other browser is incorrect. I am on Firefox version 84

Import bookmarks and other data from Google Chrome