Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 03:05:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all ff experts;
>
> Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering that
> dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever retention of
> bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low, or a timeout that is
> quicker than it is useful. Looking at bookmarks, and its been about a
> month since I logged in to move a few sheckels around, I needed to do
> that again, and find that bookmark and login have been expired out of
> access if not out of the machine. Obviously that, being my banking, has
> never been written down. I have foolishly depended on my browser to
> remember all that.
>
Firefox has a sync feature: if you still have one machine with a working
Firefox and profile, you can sync it across to the (now) bullseye
machine.
> Is that fixable from the about:config menu. to restore the former
> hundreds of bookmarks it had back in stretch, or do I have to find
> another browser and start all over.
>
Did you ever copy the your directory (including the firefox folder) to another
machine as backup?
> In that event, suggestions investigated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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>
All best, as ever,
Andy Cater
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