Where did you install Firefox from? Help Mozilla uncover 3rd party websites that offer problematic Firefox installation by taking part in our campaign. There will be swag, and you'll be featured in our blog if you manage to report at least 10 valid reports!

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Imported bookmarks move from correct location to "Other Bookmarks" over time

  • 2 replies
  • 1 has this problem
  • 3 views
  • Last reply by IanIan

IanIan
IanIan
more options

Hi, I used to use Firefox and stopped when the web extensions code went live. It broke my bookmark pane extension and at that point there was nothing differentiating Firefox from Chrome.

So I switched to Chrome. I wanted to start using Firefox again and use the Mozilla sync to sync bookmarks. I did the following:

Delete all bookmarks then sync. Import from Chrome. This worked fine. Moved a couple of folders to the right place. Synched. This worked fine initially.

After a few hours I synced and half a dozen bookmarks appeared in "Other Bookmarks" folder in Firefox. Iniitially this was empty, so an easy spot.

These all appeared to be duplicates, so I was a bit annoyed, I do have duplicates for good reason, but hey ho.

This morning I synced and there are a few hundred more now. It has just picked random bookmarks, literally no logic behind it and dumped them all in Other bookmarks.

I don't know what's going on, but it's rendered Firefox impossible to use properly for me.

Any ideas?

Thank you :)

Hi, I used to use Firefox and stopped when the web extensions code went live. It broke my bookmark pane extension and at that point there was nothing differentiating Firefox from Chrome. So I switched to Chrome. I wanted to start using Firefox again and use the Mozilla sync to sync bookmarks. I did the following: Delete all bookmarks then sync. Import from Chrome. This worked fine. Moved a couple of folders to the right place. Synched. This worked fine initially. After a few hours I synced and half a dozen bookmarks appeared in "Other Bookmarks" folder in Firefox. Iniitially this was empty, so an easy spot. These all appeared to be duplicates, so I was a bit annoyed, I do have duplicates for good reason, but hey ho. This morning I synced and there are a few hundred more now. It has just picked random bookmarks, literally no logic behind it and dumped them all in Other bookmarks. I don't know what's going on, but it's rendered Firefox impossible to use properly for me. Any ideas? Thank you :)

All Replies (2)

Shadow110
Shadow110
more options

Hi, none as I do not use Sync as I see what happens. Always once things are correct :

Please check your settings in your account to see if all is ok. This is all I have on Sync :

You can open about:sync-log via the location bar to see if there are recent error logs available. You can upload a recent log if the log is too big to put in a reply. or to https://pastebin.mozilla.org/ ( I have no idea how to read them but someone will) and If you have a bug, file a bug report. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ Bug Writing Guidelines : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

IanIan
IanIan Question owner
more options

Ok, I'll do some work cleaning up my repro case, the logs look interesting so I'll try and produce clean ones with a minimal repro case.

More soon :)