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Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

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On Saturday, January 22, 2022 4:02:37 PM EST piorunz wrote:
> On 22/01/2022 20:05, gene heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all ff experts;
> > 
> > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox
> 
> Oldstable (Debian 10 Buster), and Oldoldstable (Debian 9 Stretch) are
> using EXACTLY the same version of Firefox, 91.5.0. Nothing has changed
> on that front.
> See here:
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
> 
> , 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,
> 
> Being your banking - bingo!! Login retention time (in cookies) has been
> set by your bank. Probably to one month, as you discovered. Ask them.
> This (probably) has nothing to do with Firefox.
> Just to be sure, that your Firefox doesn't not interfere with banking
> cookies, go to Firefox settings, Privacy & Security tab, and check what
> Browser Policy you are using. "Standard" is pretty much normal, but if
> you are using "Strict" this may interfere with some cookies.

That setting is "standard". I have probably added at least 25 new 
bookmarks in the last month, but all I can see is about 10 of the most 
recent, and it will only scroll to maybe 3 more, which are all ff boiler 
plate at the bottom of the list.
> has
> 
> > never been written down. I have foolishly depended on my browser to
> > remember all that.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Sorry but I don't understand your connection between logged in pages
> (in cookies) and bookmarks. Are you saying now, that you lost
> bookmarks list in your Firefox profile? 

lost bookmarks, hundreds.

> Or that you have been logged
> out of some pages? If that's the bookmarks saved in your Firefox
> profile, what steps have you taken to save/preserve/restore your
> profile?

Well obviously they want that stuff "in the cloud" so they can browse it 
and sell me stuff. So just as obviously I have ignored all that 
'cloud' bs.

Historically If the bank times out the cookie, they'll ask me a secondary 
security question before letting me in, but that, until now has never 
removed a bookmark. With 32 gigs of ram in this machine, and /home is a 
2T raid10 on SSD's, restricting memory or storage space used for 
bookmarks & passwds is a total and absolute non-starter.  So why isn't ff 
saving bookmarks?  Since chromium is on its way out, and you can probably 
hear me cheering that from there, what else is their today?
> --
> With kindest regards, Piotr.
> 
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-22 21:10 +0100
  Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-22 22:10 +0100
    Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 00:00 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-23 01:00 +0100
        Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 01:20 +0100
          Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-23 01:50 +0100
  Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2022-01-22 22:30 +0100
  Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-01-22 23:50 +0100
    Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 00:10 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-01-23 00:20 +0100
        Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 01:10 +0100
          Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-01-23 01:20 +0100
  Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 02:30 +0100
    Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2022-01-23 03:10 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 04:10 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 04:10 +0100
    Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 03:10 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2022-01-23 03:20 +0100
      Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-23 17:00 +0100
        Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH? gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-23 19:50 +0100

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