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Bookmark icons are no longer coming with the bookmarks, why?

rpkprpk
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I use the drag and drop method of bookmarking, dragging the circled "i" down to the folder and/or subfolder of choice on the Bookmark Toolbar. However no icons are showing up where I have placed that bookmark, not even after I return to that bookmark and click on it to reload that page (which used to work). I also have tried bookmarking by dragging the icon in the tab to where I want the bookmark to be, but that doesn't work either. Sort of related to this is not icons showing up if I do a manual export of the bookmarks to another computer, but I don't know if it is really related to my original question.

I use the drag and drop method of bookmarking, dragging the circled "i" down to the folder and/or subfolder of choice on the Bookmark Toolbar. However no icons are showing up where I have placed that bookmark, not even after I return to that bookmark and click on it to reload that page (which used to work). I also have tried bookmarking by dragging the icon in the tab to where I want the bookmark to be, but that doesn't work either. Sort of related to this is not icons showing up if I do a manual export of the bookmarks to another computer, but I don't know if it is really related to my original question.

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the-edmeister
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Favicon storage for bookmarks was changed for Firefox 55. And is seems that now the Favicons are being stored when using {Ctrl + D} to save a new bookmark; although I rarely use that method to save a new bookmark, the "drag'n'drop" method is what I have been using for years now - to get the Favicon saved with the new bookmark.

Dragging the circled "I" seems to work fine for me with Firefox 55.0.2; along with dragging the Tab to save a new bookmark to the Bookmarks Toolbar.

As far as Favicons being included with an Export to HTML format, that has always been a part of Firefox since like Firefox 0.8. But doing a "backup" to JSON format of copying over a Bookmarks Backup file has never included the Favicons.

Try the Firefox SafeMode to see if "drag'n'drop" works.