Mozilla TMI: How do I solve a DECADES long Bookmarks Management DILEMMA?
BEFORE ANYONE ANSWERS THIS PLEASE STOP AND THINK. I have been using this browser since Netscape. I have been "managing" bookmarks for years and years but I have NEVER found a SOLUTION to managing bookmarks in a SIMPLE, USEFUL way. I have wasted hours and hours on this site looking for answers to the ongoing difficulty that EVERYONE has dealing with the BROWSER WARS imperative that bookmarks can be imported and therefore, perpetually duplicated in an infinite array of browser upgrades and OS installations over the YEARS AND YEARS. For those of us who have managed to ERR on the side of caution and always opt to live with the effects of this rather than risk LOSING the good data nested within, I implore Mozilla to THINK LONG AND HARD on developing a solution to this ONGOING PROBLEM WITH BROWSER BOOKMARKS MANAGEMENT OVERALL. Oh sure, there are hundreds of plugins that ultimately suck up the memory for partial solutions to the PROBLEM that is caused by each new installation of Firefox or other browser in which past bookmarks are imported and ultimately duplicated ad infinitum. I don't need to know all the things that are wrong with Microsoft and how developers or users create the problem, I need a SOLUTION.
Will Mozilla please be the FIRST BROWSER TO SOLVE THE DE-SHITIFICATION OF BOOKMARKS no matter how poorly mismanaged and duplicated they were in past iterations?
The more time I spend on this HELP site looking for answers, the clearer it becomes that this is a problem for DEVELOPERS to solve because none of the USERS can figure out the answers. So, BEFORE you tell me ANYTHING, SHOW ME THE MOZILLA FEATURE THAT SOLVES BOOKMARKS MANAGEMENT THOROUGHLY AND SIMPLY, because, so far, that clearly does not exist.
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Hi,
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Hi Bob, I can't tell from your message what problem you are looking to solve. Maybe it's this:
Bob Who said
... the ongoing difficulty that EVERYONE has dealing with the BROWSER WARS imperative that bookmarks can be imported and therefore, perpetually duplicated ... ... the PROBLEM that is caused by each new installation of Firefox or other browser in which past bookmarks are imported and ultimately duplicated ad infinitum. ...
Yes, importing bookmarks adds the imported set to your existing set. But you shouldn't need to import bookmarks if you already have them.
No, simply updating Firefox should not cause duplication of bookmarks. This sounds like a bug or maybe Places database file corruption if your bookmarks duplicate themselves.
Firefox does not have a built-in feature to de-duplicate bookmarks. Is that what you need?
Or are you saying that bookmarks should be in a central repository shared by all browsers rather than in numerous silos that get out of sync?
Okulungisiwe ngu jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
Btw typing in all Caps is considered rude as it is the internet version of shouting in the faces of people who are talking to you normally. I know you are trying emphasis however there is the bold and italic as options.
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