Randomly Losing Bookmarks !!!
Randomly Losing Bookmarks !!!
I got some random selection of Bookmarks suddenly lost from Firefox Bookmark Folders, some Folders entirely cleared... I'm I the only one?!
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I tried searching for anyone else with this issue a month and a half ago, because this happened to me. The bookmarks I lost were not all nested, and I've notice this happen in windows 11 (all exploit protection disabled), and debian 12(both OS different browser profile) I wondered if maybe using the 'Exit' in menu instead of X/middle click tab to close might be related, but I don't know any code evidence in recent releases to corroborate this. This issue was first recognized for me about 2-3 firefox versions ago. 32gb ram i9 9th gen, I use privacy badger, privacy possum, adguard with most filters enabled, decentraleyes, and user agent switcher. I always run in private browsing. I don't think this is related to a malicious website.
I do not have any sync agents like firefox sync enabled. One instance has about 50~ bookmarks with 3 folders no subfolders, one instance has about 500 with many subfolders.
I assume only recently added bookmarks have disappeared, but I have no way to verify and my memory wasn't perfect.
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I got something similar after a Firefox update. You can get them back by re-selecting the correct profile. I don’t remember exactly how but Internet should be able to help you there
Luckily for me, I enabled offline Backups, and exported a copy ( HTML copy ), unfortunately FF doesn't append nonexistence Bookmarks to existing ones, it's just imports on top of everything...
Still, randomly losing Bookmarks is very problematic, if it were 50 entries, fine no big deal, but you can't keep track of say 10k entries, when they're quietly stolen from you
Edit : seems like this "bug" affects big folders with many subfolders