can no longer add, edit, tag, or remove bookmarks - when I click on the icon, no dropdown appears
I can't figure out which topic to use for this but I can't submit it without one.
When I click on the star icon in the address bar the star icon is filled in, and existing bookmarks do show with the filled-in star icon and they work. But I no longer get a dropdown where I can assign a folder, edit, tag, or delete an existing bookmark, and the pages I've tried to bookmark don't show up in Recently Bookmarked so they haven't been added. I don't know if it has something to do with the toolbar?
Nothing I can find online helps. The places.sqlite file in my profile is not read-only, and I refreshed Firefox (stupidly, before I took a screenshot of the pinned shortcuts on my New Tabs page) and that made no difference. The only extension I use is UBlock Origin. Changing profiles did not help. This is on my personal laptop and no organization controls my settings.
I stay up to date on Windows 11 and Firefox updates. I do use a VPN but it never interfered with bookmarking functionality before. (I see Firefox offers a free one now but I've got a couple of years left on my paid subscription).
I asked the community but got no replies. (I did "reply" to add more information which no longer applies, and I can't seem to delete the "reply".)
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Can you Refresh Firefox? You can get to that by typing refresh in your address bar, and a button will appear.
I've already tried that and it made no difference. But thank you for responding.
Enter about:support in the address bar and click the Verify integrity button in the Places database section. It should produce a log, paste it here for analysis.
Thank you! Here's the log.
> Task: checkIntegrity + The places.sqlite database is sane + The favicons.sqlite database is sane > Task: checkCoherence + The database is coherent > Task: expire + Database cleaned up > Task: vacuum + Initial database size is 20480KiB + The database has been vacuumed + Final database size is 20480KiB > Task: stats + Places.sqlite size is 20480KiB + Favicons.sqlite size is 20928KiB + pragma_user_version is 86 + pragma_page_size is 32768 + pragma_cache_size is -2048 + pragma_journal_mode is wal + pragma_synchronous is 1 + History can store a maximum of 86995 unique pages + Table moz_origins has 2591 records + Table moz_places has 20030 records + Table moz_historyvisits has 20424 records + Table moz_inputhistory has 37 records + Table moz_bookmarks has 16438 records + Table moz_bookmarks_deleted has 0 records + Table moz_keywords has 0 records + Table sqlite_sequence has 1 records + Table moz_anno_attributes has 3 records + Table moz_annos has 30 records + Table moz_items_annos has 0 records + Table moz_meta has 10 records + Table moz_places_metadata has 13731 records + Table moz_places_metadata_search_queries has 0 records + Table sqlite_stat1 has 27 records + Table moz_previews_tombstones has 0 records + Table moz_places_extra has 0 records + Table moz_historyvisits_extra has 0 records + Table moz_newtab_story_click has 0 records + Table moz_newtab_story_impression has 80 records + Table moz_newtab_shortcuts_interaction has 2022 records + Pages sequentiality: 41.2 + sqlite_schema: 32KiB (0.2%), 29.8% eff. + moz_inputhistory: 32KiB (0.2%), 3.4% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_inputhistory_1: 32KiB (0.2%), 2.5% eff. + moz_bookmarks_deleted: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_bookmarks_deleted_1: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_keywords: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_keywords_1: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + sqlite_sequence: 32KiB (0.2%), 0.1% eff. + moz_anno_attributes: 32KiB (0.2%), 0.3% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_anno_attributes_1: 32KiB (0.2%), 0.3% eff. + moz_annos: 32KiB (0.2%), 8.5% eff. + moz_items_annos: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_meta: 32KiB (0.2%), 1.7% eff. + moz_places_metadata_search_queries: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_places_metadata_search_queries_1: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + sqlite_stat1: 32KiB (0.2%), 5% eff. + moz_previews_tombstones: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_places_extra: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_historyvisits_extra: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_newtab_story_click: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_newtab_story_impression: 32KiB (0.2%), 6.3% eff. + moz_keywords_placepostdata_uniqueindex: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_annos_placeattributeindex: 32KiB (0.2%), 1.2% eff. + moz_items_annos_itemattributeindex: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_newtab_story_click_newtab_click_timestampindex: 32KiB (0.2%), 0% eff. + moz_newtab_story_impression_newtab_impression_timestampindex: 32KiB (0.2%), 2.7% eff. + moz_newtab_shortcuts_interaction_timestampindex: 32KiB (0.2%), 73.7% eff. + moz_newtab_shortcuts_interaction_placeidindex: 32KiB (0.2%), 65.5% eff. + moz_newtab_shortcuts_interaction: 96KiB (0.6%), 40.2% eff. + sqlite_autoindex_moz_origins_1: 128KiB (0.8%), 69% eff. + moz_origins: 160KiB (1%), 62.4% eff. + moz_places_visitcount: 224KiB (1.4%), 76.7% eff. + moz_historyvisits_fromindex: 224KiB (1.4%), 82.4% eff. + moz_bookmarks_itemindex: 224KiB (1.4%), 79.5% eff. + moz_places_altfrecencyindex: 224KiB (1.4%), 76.2% eff. + moz_places_frecencyindex: 256KiB (1.6%), 79.8% eff. + moz_places_originidindex: 256KiB (1.6%), 78.3% eff. + moz_bookmarks_parentindex: 256KiB (1.6%), 76.7% eff. + moz_places_metadata_placecreated_uniqueindex: 288KiB (1.7%), 83.6% eff. + moz_places_url_hashindex: 320KiB (1.9%), 90% eff. + moz_places_lastvisitdateindex: 320KiB (1.9%), 84% eff. + moz_bookmarks_dateaddedindex: 320KiB (1.9%), 80.3% eff. + moz_historyvisits_dateindex: 352KiB (2.1%), 90.7% eff. + moz_bookmarks_itemlastmodifiedindex: 352KiB (2.1%), 86.7% eff. + moz_bookmarks_guid_uniqueindex: 384KiB (2.3%), 83.6% eff. + moz_places_guid_uniqueindex: 448KiB (2.7%), 90.5% eff. + moz_historyvisits_placedateindex: 448KiB (2.7%), 88.8% eff. + moz_places_metadata: 544KiB (3.3%), 93.8% eff. + moz_places_hostindex: 544KiB (3.3%), 92.5% eff. + moz_historyvisits: 576KiB (3.5%), 92.8% eff. + moz_bookmarks: 1760KiB (10.7%), 97.3% eff. + moz_places: 6912KiB (41.9%), 98.9% eff. > Task: _refreshUI
Statistics Last Idle Maintenance Date 5/18/2026, 2:12 AM Last Vacuum Date 5/18/2026, 2:12 AM
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