Bookmarks.html Renders Very Differently in FireFox 4

For years, I have been using and loving Firefox (including 4.0).
For years, I have also exported my bookmarks out of Firefox and use the resulting bookmarks.html file as my home page.
Now Firefox 4 renders the bookmarks.html file very differently from previous versions of Firefox and also differently from other browsers (eg, IE).
The indentations have disappeared when viewing bookmarks.html in Firefox 4. Unfortunately, it's not really easy to show you this inside this forum text box, but I will try.
Firefox 4 shows something like this:
'''Bookmarks Menu'''
'''General Interest'''
Markham Weather Forecast - Environment Canada
The Weather Network - Markham
The Weather Channel - Markham
AccuWeather.com - Canadian Forecast Center
... etc
Firefox 3.6, IE, and other browsers show something like this (note the indentations which greatly improve readability):
'''Bookmarks Menu'''
'''General Interest'''
Markham Weather Forecast - Environment Canada
The Weather Network - Markham
The Weather Channel - Markham
AccuWeather.com - Canadian Forecast Center
... etc
Is this a bug in Firefox 4?? I would really like to see bookmarks.html rendered with the indentations.
Am I missing something?
Thanks.

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