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Bookmark toolbar randomly rearranging bookmarks by name.

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Kaisoo
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Starting yesterday by bookmark toolbar randomly started rearranging my bookmarks by name. I am not accidentally using the r-command which apparently is set to sort by name. I had even rearranged my bookmarks the way I've always had them before putting on playlist on youtube and going to bed and when I woke up they had rearranged themselves. Exiting Firefox and reopening doesn't trigger it, changing windows to some other application doesn't trigger it. So I have no idea what is triggering the change.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to stop it?

Starting yesterday by bookmark toolbar randomly started rearranging my bookmarks by name. I am not accidentally using the r-command which apparently is set to sort by name. I had even rearranged my bookmarks the way I've always had them before putting on playlist on youtube and going to bed and when I woke up they had rearranged themselves. Exiting Firefox and reopening doesn't trigger it, changing windows to some other application doesn't trigger it. So I have no idea what is triggering the change. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to stop it?

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finitarry
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In the bookmarks window View menu > Sort, make sure that "Unsorted" is checked.

Kaisoo
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I just looked into this and it was already set to unsorted.

cor-el
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You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.