MOST VISITED FOLDER all screwed up! Top sites gone; collecting all pages seen...How to fix?
Top sites have disappeared from MOST VISITED FOLDER and is collecting ALL pages visited. I am having to delete as I surf.
Additionally, the top sites just stayed in the MOST VISITED folder after I deleted them from showing up on the Bookmarks Toolbar. Now if I do that, it is not in MOST VISITED FOLDER.
I am NO techie so hope your help is simple, clear and step-by-step.
This has never happened before...HELP, ASAP!
THXXX!
using MOZILLA WIN XP
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Hi,
You can try to reset it. Please see this.
The Config Descriptions add-on adds helpful source comments in about:config.
To update Firefox to the latest: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Modified by dumdidadida
- "Most Visited" and "Recently Bookmarked" and "Recent Tags" are examples of so called Smart Bookmarks folders and are not real existing folders.
- Such smart folders show a list created by a query of the places.sqlite database that stores the bookmarks and the history in Firefox.
- Smart folder lists show a maximum of 10 entries by default.
- Bookmarks or 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.
- If you remove an entry then the list is shifted up and a new entry that wasn't shown previously is added to show 10 entries.
- If you add a new bookmark or visit a website then a new item is added at the top and the entry at the bottom disappears from that list.
- Items that disappear from the list are not gone, but merely do not show up anymore in that list.
- Actions like copy & paste or delete that you perform on bookmarks in such a list are done on the original bookmark.
You may have a problem with the places.sqlite file if the history isn't working properly.
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox Profile Folder.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
You can try to check and repair the places database with this extension:
Thank you for your help but...
I did put that add-on in FF
I have gone to those pages and it is ALL too confusing for me!
I get a headache just looking at all that information on there!
Can someone *PLEASE* just give me some SIMPLE step-by-step directions to correct this?
It is STILL populating every page I go to!
HELP!!!
THXXX!
If the Most Visited folder isn't working and the extension didn't help then try to delete the places.sqlite files in the Firefox Profile Folder as posted above.
You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder
You can try to delete the current Most Visited folder and let Firefox create a new folder if the current Most Visited folder isn't working and deleting places.sqlite to reset the history didn't help. See https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Restore+the+default+Smart+Bookmarks+Folders
Hello Cor-el-you MUST be VERY tech savvy!
I downloaded sqlite browser to decipher sqlite doc. (BTW-made an error opening up with WORD and have NO idea how to convert those docs back to what they were!)* Have the rar but have no idea how to run anything from it and have searched online.
Am trying to find out what Default Smart Bookmarks looks/acts like Before I take any action.
Wish there was an Add-On that simply statically held my Top Ten websites-that's all I want. Don't need anything like Speed Dial etc.
Just an Easy/Fast access to my TOP FAVES and NOT have them displayed on the Bookmarks toolbar. That is what my MOST VISITED folder USED to do!
THX again...
- As I said before-I am NO techie :(