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letsdothis
letsdothis
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1. Why does Firefox create bookmark folders with just a date for a name?

2. Why does Firefox automatically save random bookmarks in these folders?

3 How do I get it to stop doing both?

Thank you.

1. Why does Firefox create bookmark folders with just a date for a name? 2. Why does Firefox automatically save random bookmarks in these folders? 3 How do I get it to stop doing both? Thank you.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Are you possibly using "Bookmark All Tabs" (Ctrl+Shift+D) ?

letsdothis
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No, I never use that option. I'm not sure I even knew about that option. I either use Ctrl+D or the Star in the address bar. I don't save a lot of bookmarks, but Firefox apparently does this every day. There are dozens of these date-only folder names.

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Terry
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Could an extension be responsible?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems (also deals with hardware acceleration)

letsdothis
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Hi Terry. Yes, that's possible, I suppose, but I'm running two dozen, so it will take some time to determine if that's true and which one. Thank you for your help.

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