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Can you disable the new bookmarking thing?

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Xirix
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Recently there's been a change so that when you click the star to bookmark, rather than just the star turning blue and that's it, it'll bring down a very in the way and unnecessary dropdown menu with a screenshot and details of what you just bookmarked.

It will also do a little animation of putting the bookmark in the library, is there a way to disable both of these new things and just have the star turn blue and nothing else?

Recently there's been a change so that when you click the star to bookmark, rather than just the star turning blue and that's it, it'll bring down a very in the way and unnecessary dropdown menu with a screenshot and details of what you just bookmarked. It will also do a little animation of putting the bookmark in the library, is there a way to disable both of these new things and just have the star turn blue and nothing else?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Hi Xirix, the screenshot is new, but the dialog has been dropping down since Firefox 57.

There isn't any built-in way to suppress the dialog, as far as I know. You can press Enter to save the bookmark (previously, even if you hit Esc it would be saved, but not any more).

Or consider using an add-on to save your bookmarks instead. This one has an optional one-click button which includes saving in a custom folder (if you aren't keen on your bookmarks going directly into the "Other Bookmarks" folder):

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/default-bookmark-folder/

I didn't do a fresh search, so there might be other options by now.

cor-el
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Firefox 63, which was released today, has a feature to bypass the panel and just save the bookmark. Here's where to find that:

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Pj
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Keyboard command 'Control-D' saves the Bookmark with the pop-up box that auto-fades away, if that helps anyone with versions earlier than FF 63.

~Pj (Still on FF 61.0.2)