Firefox upgraded itself and now bookmarks from the last two years can only he "searched" but can't be seen in the list on the side bar or in the manager

Question

I was running 3.5 and firefox did a little upgrade on it's own. Now I can't see any bookmarks I've added after 2009 in the bookmarks manager list or sidebar but if I search something I know I added it will show up with a date when I added it in 2010 or 2011 but I cant see these in the list without knowing what to search for. I only seem to have one "profile" I have tried restoring back to old bookmarks from the weekend with no success, and I even upgraded to 3.6 but no luck. Is there an addon or extension that could be blocking my view of the rest of my bookmarks?

Answer 1

Not sure about the middle click, I only used a two button mouse until recently, and maybe you could have subscribed differently or used some add-on.
Firefox 4 does not at present show the RSS icon in the location bar, but does have a customise option providing a button, or ass-ons can put one back in the location bar.
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rss-icon/
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rss-icon-in-awesombar/
The listings do still show icons differently if already viewed, and if links are displayed the read and unread ones may display differently. This depends partly on how the page you view is set-up by the feed provider.
My firefox is en-GB edition and default'' Latest Headlines'' http://fxfeeds.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/headlines.xml is the BBC news. The BBC site may have changed the option on that feed, clicking the option is to open individual tabs or all the tabs, there is no separate listing, or explicit news page option now, however left clicking the option ''Open "Latest Headlines"'' at the bottom of the RSS listing goes to the BBC news home http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Compare that with another feed from the BBC :
* http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/templates/bbciplayer/seo/rssFeed?category=prog_availability