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The way you changed adding bookmarks is not helpful, is there a way to change it back so that all bookmarks are just added to the main list?

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walterk
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Nothing more to be said. Hitting the "star" to add a bookmark just adds it to a separate list, instead of the main bookmark list, and there is no obvious way I can find to turn that off or to move those "Recently Bookmarked" items to the main list. Why did you have to mess around with something that just worked?

Nothing more to be said. Hitting the "star" to add a bookmark just adds it to a separate list, instead of the main bookmark list, and there is no obvious way I can find to turn that off or to move those "Recently Bookmarked" items to the main list. Why did you have to mess around with something that just worked?

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philipp
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hello walterk, nothing should have changed in the bookmarks management recently. hit the star icon a second time in order to edit the settings and location of a newly created bookmark.

walterk
walterk Úinéir na ceiste
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Okay, thanks, that works for NEW pages that are bookmarked, but doesn't help all the others that are still in the "Recently Bookmarked" list.

cor-el
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If you click the star on the Navigation Toolbar to bookmark the current tab then the new bookmark is created in the Unsorted folder. The blue highlighted star gets an "Edit this bookmark" tooltip and if you click the star another time then you get the "Edit This Bookmark" dialog and can move the bookmark to another folder. The list icon next to it (tooltip: Show your bookmarks) is the drop marker of the star button and behaves as the Bookmarks Menu button (that also looked like a star) known from older Firefox versions.

  • "Most Visited" and "Recently Bookmarked" and "Recent Tags" are examples of so called Smart Bookmarks folders and are not real existing folders.
  • Smart folders show a list created by a query of the places.sqlite database that stores bookmarks and history in Firefox.
  • Smart folder lists show a maximum of 10 entries by default.
  • Bookmarks and history items that show up in a smart folder list are stored elsewhere in another folder and any changes made are applied to the real bookmark or history item.
the-edmeister
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To put it more succinctly, that Recently Bookmarked listing isn't the "real" new bookmarks; just an additional display of the 10 bookmarks that you most recently saved. Each one of the bookmarks in that "smart folder" is actually saved elsewhere in the Library folder hierarchy, most likely in the Unsorted Bookmarks folder if you saved the new bookmark by clicking once on the "Star".

As philipp mentioned, the bookmarks folder interface hasn't been changed recently, but the "buttons" have been changed a few times over recent versions of Firefox. The changes have been with the "star" and the "tablet" buttons, and with some of the Menu items having been removed or rearranged, a few times.

cor-el
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See also;

walterk
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Really?? It needs an add on to restore a default function to the way it used to be?? That is just brain dead. I give up.

the-edmeister
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There 5 ways to save a new Bookmark in Firefox, maybe a different method will work to your satisfaction.
1. {Ctrl + D}
2. Right-click and select the icon for Bookmark this Page.
3. Bookmarks > Bookmark this Page
4. Double-click the Star that is on the right side of the Location bar.
4a. (A single-click on the Star will save the new Bookmark to the Unsorted Bookmarks folder.)
5. Left-click and drag the website image (Favicon) in the URL bar (or on the active tab) into the Sidebar view of Bookmarks {Ctrl + B} or to the Bookmarks menu bar item (the drop-down will open) and then onto the drop-down listing of your bookmarks and folder of bookmarks (folders will open) or onto the Bookmarks Toolbar - the new bookmark will be saved when you release the left mouse button