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Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« on: Wednesday 10 January 18 17:22 GMT (UK) »
Somehow my useful record of bookmarks has disappeared from the options and the whole of the Firefox search looks different.
Can anyone suggest how to get them back, as I have tried various Mozilla sites and gone round in circles.
Plain language only please.
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Re: Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 10 January 18 17:55 GMT (UK) »
I presume you updated Mozilla to their new Quantum.  If you can find a site that lets you download Mozilla Firefox version 56.0.2 then things will return to normal.

I've given up on Mozilla, and am using Chrome now, all my bookmarks are there and I can also pin tabs of pages I've got open.  It's much quicker than Mozilla and more user friendly.  I have to say when Chrome was new I didn't like it but it seems more user friendly now.

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Re: Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 10 January 18 18:18 GMT (UK) »
Same thing happened to me, I did find them again and have them now as two folders on the toolbar along the top.
I'm not on my own computer just now so can't remember how I found them, I'll have a look when I get home if you don't get the answer you need in the meantime.

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Re: Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 10 January 18 18:42 GMT (UK) »
If you go View

Is Bookmarks ticked?
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Re: Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 11 January 18 01:00 GMT (UK) »
I don't have those choices across the top.

(Edited to add) but just managed to find them by right clicking at the top.

I uses the thing with 3standing black lines and the 4th tilted, than Bookmarks, at the bottom show all bookmarks. In the box that opens I dragged Other Bookmarks and Bookmarks Menu to the bar under the web address etc.

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Re: Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 11 January 18 08:51 GMT (UK) »
Yes it can be personalized many ways.

I suggest the best thing to do is run Firefox Installer which should be in Downloads folder (Default location).

Firefox, not open, when running Installer!!

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Re: Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 11 January 18 09:09 GMT (UK) »
This happened to me earlier in the week. No tool bars were showing so I did what Sinann did and they came back as before  :)
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Re: Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 11 January 18 18:03 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for all suggestions.  I have been going round in circles again without getting any sight of the old bookmarks, so will be starting afresh with a different browser.
You are all very helpful and I am grateful.
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Re: Firefox bookmarks lost - help please!
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 11 January 18 18:40 GMT (UK) »
Mine has something similar to Sinann (they're books!) but also to the left is a star with a line underneath. If I click on that star it shows my bookmarks as it did before.

Must admit it threw me for a while after the update.  :-\
Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough.
Lickess- North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough.
Etherington - North Yorks and Durham.
Barker- North Yorks
Crooks- Durham
Forster- North Yorks/Durham
Newsam, Pattison, Proud - North Yorks.
Timothy, Griffiths, Jones - South Wales