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Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

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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.
> -- 
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
>  - Louis D. Brandeis
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
> 
> 
>

All best, as ever, 

Andy Cater 

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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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