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Reassigning a bookmark

Richard Johnson
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My recollection is that when I used to want to reassign a bookmark to a different folder, I just brought up the bookmarked page and used the ctrl+D shortcut to add it to the new folder--and the old bookmark was gone. Now it seems that when I do that, the old bookmark remains, so that I now have the same page bookmarked in two places. Is this a change I was not aware of? Is there a different procedure to move (rather than duplicate) the bookmark?

My recollection is that when I used to want to reassign a bookmark to a different folder, I just brought up the bookmarked page and used the ctrl+D shortcut to add it to the new folder--and the old bookmark was gone. Now it seems that when I do that, the old bookmark remains, so that I now have the same page bookmarked in two places. Is this a change I was not aware of? Is there a different procedure to move (rather than duplicate) the bookmark?

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Thanks, cor-el. I'm happy to learn about the (apparently new) troubleshoot mode, which I'll try when I get a minute.

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cor-el
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Hi

Moving a bookmark from one folder to another folder should still work via the "Edit This Bookmark" dialog. You can also drag the bookmark directly to a different folder or use Cut & Paste in the Bookmarks Manager (Library) and in the sidebar and in various bookmark menus. Only if you would look at a places query list like Recently Bookmarked then this still leaves the bookmark in this folder since this only shows a list of bookmarks you recently created and isn't an actual folder list.

Richard Johnson
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Cor-el, your post is interesting but it does not really answer either of my two questions. It's not a critical issue but I was just curious.

cor-el
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The point is that using the "Edit This Bookmark" dialog (star or Ctrl+D) shouldn't duplicate the bookmark. If that happens for you then this is unusual.

Start Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration or userChrome.css is causing the problem.

  • switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes
  • do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Troubleshoot Mode start window
Richard Johnson
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Thanks, cor-el. I'm happy to learn about the (apparently new) troubleshoot mode, which I'll try when I get a minute.

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Odin3 said
add it to the new folder--and the old bookmark was gone.

I dont ever recall the above methodology being in FF.

I seem to recall, that you can have all sorts of folders and bookmarks replicated in them.

So if you save bookmark of an open page, it can be saved to a number of folders.

But who knows, maybe I havent paid too much attention about this or had ever experienced an issue.

cor-el
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The only way to get multiple copies of a bookmark is to drag the tab to a bookmarks folder or use "Bookmark Tab" in the Tab bar context menu to create a new bookmark As soon as the current tab is bookmarked then "Bookmark Current Tab" changes to "Edit This Bookmark"..

Richard Johnson
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Cor-el, I'm marking this question as solved because using Troubleshoot Mode does seem to restore the original behavior. However, it's not worth my time to make the necessary additional efforts to detect the cause of the issue--I'll just make it a point to delete an old bookmark before reassigning it. (Even if I neglect to do that, there's no serious harm done.) Thanks again for your help.