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Why is Sync reordering bookmarks toolbar items

Wellfleetian
Wellfleetian
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I use firefox on two computers (iMac desktop and HP laptop). I have sync enabled for both, but recently, the order of items in the Bookmarks toolbar is different from one device to the other. If I reorder the Toolbar items the way I want on one device, the comeout vastly different on the other. If I then go to the second and reorder, that messes up the order on the original machine. This is a new bug...not serious, but very annoying. I'm used to seeing bookmarks items in a certain position, and it's annoying to have to hunt for them elsewhere in Bookmarks.

Anyone else have this problem, or have an idea whats up?

Thanks in advance.

I use firefox on two computers (iMac desktop and HP laptop). I have sync enabled for both, but recently, the order of items in the Bookmarks toolbar is different from one device to the other. If I reorder the Toolbar items the way I want on one device, the comeout vastly different on the other. If I then go to the second and reorder, that messes up the order on the original machine. This is a new bug...not serious, but very annoying. I'm used to seeing bookmarks items in a certain position, and it's annoying to have to hunt for them elsewhere in Bookmarks. Anyone else have this problem, or have an idea whats up? Thanks in advance.

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the-edmeister
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Any chance that you also have Firefox for Android or Firefox for iOS (the mobile device versions of Firefox) connected to that same Sync account?

If not, you may have a minor corruption situation going on with one or both of those "desktop" Firefox installations.

Disconnect both 'devices' from Sync and run "Place Maintenance" on each. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/

Then change the Password for your Sync account to "flush" the corrupted data from the Sync server, and connect each of those 'devices' one at a time, a few hours apart.