I got some random selection of Bookmarks suddenly lost from Firefox Bookmark Folders, some Folders entirely cleared… I’m I the only one?!
I got something similar after a Firefox update. You can get them back by re-selecting the correct profile. I don’t remember exactly how but Internet should be able to help you there
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about:profilesI’d guess.This didn’t happen to me,
likely since I use XBrowserSync:
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Waterfox user here with no problems: All I can think of is that someone with access to your account (like maybe a family member while you were logged in) accidentally or purposely deleted them.
Sorry that happened to you. Change your password and make a backup next time!
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Now you’re making me worried.
I have a lot of important stuff bookmarked…
Can anyone recommend a good bookmark manager?
I really hope not. Is this desktop or Android?
Both, Sync is enabled… So if you lose something on either end you lose it on the other end…
I was organizing my bookmarks, I spend the entire day in front of my PC, then at 1am I scrolled on my phone for a second, I started working again only to realize that the folder I’m working on has entries missing ( subfolders missing too ), started checking other folders, same… some Folders are still intact though… But for anyone ( not just me ) this is a disaster… Losing research and stuff… Luckily I enabled offline backups so I’m golden…
Also, something that troubles me, is the fact I lost most of my bookmarks from folders that contain sensitive topics, like Politics…
I try not to think about it, but it spooks me
Oh dear.
Edit: Just checked and my work bookmarks appear to be all there. I did a fresh backup through the Library tool just in case. Hope you get your issue sorted.
Hope you get your issue sorted.
This seems to be a bug, affecting big sized folders ( Folders with subfolders and lots of Bookmarks ), these are the folders that got Bookmarks removed from them ( in my case they were political which spooked me a bit )…
I should join Mozilla’s forums and talk about this, it’ll be noticed there by the Devs, but… yeah… Sync is not enough to save your Bookmarks, and you should always keep a local copy… Luckily I did … 😮💨
Intriguing. How many bookmarks are we talking about, if you can estimate? Did the list extend off the monitor?
How many bookmarks are we talking about, if you can estimate?
I’m guessing 100 bookmakrs lost
Did the list extend off the monitor?
What does this mean ? I have other Bookmarks stored in Tab Stash extension, they weren’t affected
Wow, that is a lot of lost bookmarks. That sucks!
What does this mean ?
I meant if they were mostly in one folder, if the list is so long that when you open the folder, the bookmarks continue past the bottom of the screen so you’d have to scroll to reach the bottom. One of my folders is like that 😅👀
that is a lot of lost bookmarks
Yeah, and a lot of research gone, and a lot of work to get them organized, I still have most of them in a local backup… 😮💨
the bookmarks continue past the bottom of the screen
Yeah, lol… In my case you have to scroll down to see other subfolders, which contain more subfolders and finally you get a list of Bookmarks that < again > goes off the screen…
I tried searching for anyone else with this issue a month and a half ago, because this happened to me. The bookmarks I lost were not all nested, and I’ve notice this happen in windows 11 (all exploit protection disabled), and debian 12(both OS different browser profile) I wondered if maybe using the ‘Exit’ in menu instead of X/middle click tab to close might be related, but I don’t know any code evidence in recent releases to corroborate this. This issue was first recognized for me about 2-3 firefox versions ago. 32gb ram i9 9th gen, I use privacy badger, privacy possum, adguard with most filters enabled, decentraleyes, and user agent switcher. I always run in private browsing. I don’t think this is related to a malicious website.
I do not have any sync agents like firefox sync enabled. One instance has about 50~ bookmarks with 3 folders no subfolders, one instance has about 500 with many subfolders.
I assume only recently added bookmarks have disappeared, but I have no way to verify and my memory wasn’t perfect.
This issue was first recognized for me about 2-3 firefox versions ago
It’s weird, first time something like this happened to me, I’m on Fedora ( FF v124.0.1 ) and I don’t think it has anything to do with how you close windows, I was organizing my bookmarks I checked Lemmy for a second, went back at it again, to see that my work gone… I didn’t touch anything…
The only thing that I think caused it is FF Sync, because it keeps running in the background… But you don’t use it, which is why I said it’s weird…
One instance has about 50~ bookmarks with 3 folders no subfolders, one instance has about 500 with many subfolders… I assume only recently added bookmarks have disappeared, but I have no way to verify and my memory wasn’t perfect
My bookmarks were there for more than a year, they didn’t vanish until I started moving them around, so I guess there’s a bug that affects large folders
Tab Stash Bookmarks aren’t affected…
I use privacy badger, privacy possum, adguard with most filters enabled, decentraleyes, and user agent switcher.
Unrelated but why all these ? you can reap better results ( reduced attack surface, better fingerprinting protection ) with different extensions,
Ublock and enable : Adguard URL tracking protection
Firefox Containers : Isolates websites/activies from each other
Cookies ( Privacy Badger ) : FF has Total Cookie Protection since v86, you just need to set the protection level to Strict mode
Fingerprinting ( Privacy Possum, UAS ), redundant with RF ( resist fingerprinting ) feature, go to about config, and search for privacy.resist fingerprinting > enable it
decentraleyes : redundant with Total Cookie Protection
The only two you need really, is Unlock and Canvas Blocker ( if you’re not going to use Arkenfox ), FF containers
Edit : sorry, three…lol
AdGuard/uBlock aren’t very different from each other. I’ve used AdGuard for a long long time, and the browser plugin isn’t their only tool I’m familiar with.
If I need better isolation between active sessions, I either end my current session or hop in a VM. Firefox containers are far from perfect and not sure why it was mentioned.
Last time I did my tests, Strict + PP + PB altogether had my preferred outcome on modified/blocked data. Resist fingerprinting did not touch everything I wanted either.
I use UAS to access sites made for other platforms, not to avoid tracking
Decentraleyes: CDN’s are not that simple. I have heard there is a better addon for this now though
I add/delete/modify multiple bookmarks a day, and noticed when i use menu-quit it hasn’t happened since. Many applications used to clean up differently this way, so I’m not sure. But I do know memory management on different platforms is becoming more and more of a nightmare to track/utilize changes
Can you link the bugzilla issue you filed about this problem you are seeing?
I haven’t, I never used Git, I don’t know how ( I’ll try )
You don’t need to be familiar with git. Just open your browser and visit https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi? create an account on bugzilla and file the bug against Firefox.
