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Florio
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Firefox is my preferred browser, and I have all my bookmarks etc synchronized between laptop and phone. I've just had to install Chrome (unwillingly!) on my laptop, and so I exported all my Firefox bookmarks across to Chrome so that I could also use them there if necessary. The problem now is that I cannot delete certain old and out-of-date bookmarks on Firefox. I just went into the Sync settings of Firefox and saw that my device name is now ¬Â¦Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¾ÃƒÆ’‚¢ÃƒÆàI don't know how long it has been like this, but I suspect that the exportation to Chrome may have something to do with it. I have temporarily dis-activated the Sync function. So two problems: how can I delete obsolete bookmarks in Firefox? And what has happened to my device?

Firefox is my preferred browser, and I have all my bookmarks etc synchronized between laptop and phone. I've just had to install Chrome (unwillingly!) on my laptop, and so I exported all my Firefox bookmarks across to Chrome so that I could also use them there if necessary. The problem now is that I cannot delete certain old and out-of-date bookmarks on Firefox. I just went into the Sync settings of Firefox and saw that my device name is now ¬Â¦Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¾ÃƒÆ’‚¢ÃƒÆàI don't know how long it has been like this, but I suspect that the exportation to Chrome may have something to do with it. I have temporarily dis-activated the Sync function. So two problems: how can I delete obsolete bookmarks in Firefox? And what has happened to my device?

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister

I haven't used Google Chrome much at all or in many years so I don't know how Chrome imports bookmarks directly from Firefox.

Please explain what what you did to "export" your Firefox bookmarks to Chrome. Such as, export your bookmarks from Firefox in the bookmarks.html format and then inport that bookmarks.html file into Google Chrome. If so, that wouldn't have affected the bookmarks that are in Firefox, as a copy would have been created and then put into the bookmarks.html format as a file with that name and format.

Florio
Florio Vraageigenaar

Thanks for your reply, the-edmeister. I eventually managed to delete the few obsolete bookmarks that were annoying me. Yes, I did export and import my bookmarks from Firefox to Chrome as an .html file. I'd now like to know why my device is currently called ¬Â¦Ãƒâ€šÃ‚¾ÃƒÆ’‚¢ÃƒÆà(I think this is only part of the name!!). Florio

cor-el
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Seeing text like "¬Â¦Ãƒâ€šÃ" means that something is wrong with the encoding. It is likely that some 8-bit western or windows encoding is used instead of the actual Unicode characters ("¦" (%C2 %A6) => '|' and "‚" (%E2 %80 %9A) => ','). You get Unicode characters displayed as their 8-bit combining characters instead of the actual character

I don't know what locale you use on your OS and what Firefox version you have.

Florio
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That's what I suspected, cor-el. I am in Italy, and my regional format is Italian. I currently have Firefox version 74.0 (64-bit). How can I get the actual characters to display?