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bookmarks changing randomly

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I had Firefox setup then upgraded to Quantum, my bookmarks were from an old import from Chrome so I deleted them. I imported the current bookmarks from Chrome and now I have bookmarks without icons and every time I drag and drop icons they randomly appear at different locations on the bookmark bar. What shows on the bookmark bar and when I open the bookmarks is two different orderings, I currently have the bookmarks set to no order.

How do I get a bookmark to stay where I place it and how do I restore the icons?

I had Firefox setup then upgraded to Quantum, my bookmarks were from an old import from Chrome so I deleted them. I imported the current bookmarks from Chrome and now I have bookmarks without icons and every time I drag and drop icons they randomly appear at different locations on the bookmark bar. What shows on the bookmark bar and when I open the bookmarks is two different orderings, I currently have the bookmarks set to no order. How do I get a bookmark to stay where I place it and how do I restore the icons?

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You need to click each bookmark to open the link in a tab to make Firefox retrieve the favicon.

You should be able to move (drag) a bookmark to another position. Make sure you aren't sorting the bookmarks in the Bookmarks Manager (Library) when you drag bookmarks around or use Cut/Paste. Sort in the Views menu in the Library is only meant for viewing purposes and is similar with clicking the column header to sort by this column.

Hi Airhead:

Corel is right as always :-) : "You need to click each bookmark to open the link in a tab to make Firefox retrieve the favicon." <--- there is a bug filed for this particular problem that might not ever get fixed due to privacy concerns:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511596

Cheers!

...Roland

That solved the issue for most sites but https://wattsupwiththat.com will not update, it has an icon but FF is not displaying it for some reason. The wuwt icon shows up on Opera, Chrome, Edge just not Firefox.