Hi, the Library window has its own sorting columns that don't change the order on menus. Try this way instead:

• Either use the left column of the Library window (Ctrl+Shift+b) or the Bookmarks Sidebar (Ctrl+b)
• Right-click the folder name of the folder you want to sort
• Click Sort By Name

That is not a temporary view like the columns on the right, that updates the data file.

Thanks for responding jscher2000.

I did what you said. When you instructed 'click sort by name' I think I did that. They all then were nicely alphabetical. But then, when reopening my bookmarks, again they were not alphabetical.

Please do not underestimate my ability to miss the obvious! I must have misunderstood something. The bookmarks re-order on that page, but I am not 'saving' or 'executing' that instruction. So the procedure does not click in..

Hmm, does it work any better in the Bookmarks Sidebar?

Also, do you log into a Firefox Account and use Sync?

If you use "Views -> Columns" in the Library or click a column on the header bar in the Library then you only sort by this column for viewing purposes in the Library, but no actual sorting is performed. Once you close the Library window then you lose the sorting. The only way to sort bookmarks is via "Sort by Name" in the right-click context menu of a bookmarks folder like posted above.

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sort-bookmarks-quickly-find-ones-you-want

You can possibly look at this extension.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/auto-sort-bookmarks/

jscher2000, cor-el

I am wary of 'Sync'. In many applications, notably Google, it means that all my addresses and other information will be mined. The last time I did this, I lost most of my mobile telephone address book. No doubt it can be retrieved somewhere - for the knowledgeable.

Thanks to all who have attempted to answer my query of 'sorting'. I have little doubt that the problem is my ignorance of these sophisticated systems. However, in my defence, how could those who design Mozilla platforms make such a simple act of alphabeticising so completely opaque to the non-expert user? Maybe MF should give at least some consideration writing these programs, or apps, to be user-friendly to lay people, not merely their computer peers.

The plethora of bells and whistles which have become seemingly obligatory these days, many of which I have little doubt are much employed except by cognoscenti, seem to have ignored the boon of making simple tasks instinctive and user-friendly, for simple people like me.