The tragic case of the VANISHING BOOKMARKS

My Safari bookmarks keep disappearing. I have a backup and use it to restore them (I import my backup), but this problem keeps coming back again and again, and I inevitably lose recent bookmarks in the process. It is extremely annoying, especially since I don't know what makes my bookmarks VANISH.
Laurent
iMac G5 + PB G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.6) Safari 2.0.3

Safari trashing the bookmarks file is not normal behavior. I have gone over three years without loosing any Safari Bookmarks. And, btw, if you loose the bookmarks file, then of course you will loose the items on your Bookmarks Bar because those items are bookmarks contained in the bookmarks file.
Are you properly shutting down Safari when you are done? Has Safari been crashing on you? Safari does all its housekeeping when it closes and I can see if it is not closed properly that that could cause problems.
You could try deleting Safari's preferences file. A corrupted preferences file can cause all sorts of unrelated, but Safari-specific problems. The fastest way to find it is to paste "com.apple.Safari.plist" (without the quotes) into Spotlight. You will get one entry. Click on Show All and you will be able to drag the plist to the trash. Restart Safari. Unfortunately, only a time trial will tell if this fixed the problem or not. In the meantime, and as a matter of course, keep a backup of Bookmarks.plist.

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Right clicking on a bookmark does nothing. I don't know if that is a Firefox version issue or a mouse issue, but the mouse can right click on the Mac OS desktop and get the usual menus.
It is possible for me to delete bookmarks which still point to an active web page because there I can use the star to edit the bookmark. That is way too cumbersome a process for the long list I have. Some are old and no longer point to an active page. The star comes up empty in those cases anyway and I can do nothing about the bookmark.
Bottom line is that I just need a way to see the whole list and choose the ones to delete.
I thought they should all show up in the unsorted bookmarks folder but it is empty. That may be the crux of the problem.

Update - I discovered that the entire list of bookmarks can be accessed in the Organize Bookmarks window by clicking on the icon for Bookmarks Menu.
This seem like odd interface behaviour to me.
All the other software I use follows the pattern that an icon with a triangle to the left, which you click on to expand the menu tree downwards, shows the entire contents of the category when you click on the triangle. In other words, you don't get a different response by clicking on the icon from what you get by clicking on the triangle.
It also seems odd to me that when an unsorted bookmarks folder is automatically provided that unsorted bookmarks would not be placed there by default.
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How can I Disable or Remove the entire Bookmarks Toolbar Feature?

I really LOVE Firefox. With over thirty years into the desktop computing industry, I can honestly say it's one of the most impressive development efforts I've seen. Thank you, seriously, all of you, everyone who has worked toward creating, maintaining and enabling the presence of this truly wonderful application!
I have never sought specific help with this one thing, and was just reminded a moment ago, how much better Firefox would be (for me) if I could completely disable/ uninstall the entire Bookmarks Toolbar _feature_. By the time this feature appeared, I had already developed and established my own system for filing bookmarks into a preset folder hierarchy. This works -much- better (for me) and I have no use for the Bookmarks Toolbar. It's always in my way, takes up screen space, and just really annoys the fecal-stuffin's out of me. Kinda reminds me of the -worst- things I remember of M$.
Once the feature is (somehow) killed, I'd like to then...
...Remove that folder from Bookmarks (menu, folder, etc -- all of it), and preferably, prevent it ever reappearing (setting 'lock'?).
I realize this -might- be something not currently 'doable' by standard means. If that should be the case, can someone forward this message into the 'feature request' queue for me? I truly would appreciate that.
Thank you in advance, and THANK YOU for Firefox!!!

Wow, cor-el... Did you -intend- your reply to be inane, inappropriate and completely inapplicable?
How would that possibly do what I asked?
You -might- consider '''''reading''''' the question, -=before=- you reply. And it's really okay to NOT REPLY if you just don't know. Just an idea.
Feel better, real soon.

How do I turn off the hover-to-select in the organize bookmarks window?

I want to turn off the "hover to select" mechanism in the "organize bookmarks" window (or dramatically increase the time until the selection happens). When I am organizing bookmarks, it keeps going to the wrong folder when I am trying to drag bookmarks from one folder to another. It is extremely aggravating to have a timer-based selection because I just happen to take a little too long to move the mouse to the folder I actually want to drop the bookmarks into. This happens to me almost every time I go to organize bookmarks.
I apologize if this has been answered before, but I did a search for this issue and was not able to find a solution, but maybe I did not choose the right keywords to find it.

hello, you could try this - enter '''about:config''' into the firefox location bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named '''toolkit.startup.max_resumed_crashes'''. double-click it and change its value to something very high like '''999999''' (maybe setting it to <s>0 or</s> -1 will also work, however i haven't tried that myself).

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My bookmarks are no longer displaying in the bookmarks, or folders there. The only place they appear is in the 'recent bookmarks' folder. Then I have to manually put them where they should have appeared in the first place.

For some reason my bookmarks are now appearing where they should. I have done nothing to change this so it may have been a glitch somewhere. I am saving your last reply in case this happens again so that I can try it.
I want to thank you for all your time and attention on this.

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Chinese character of the site name is displayed ok in the head of the browser window and there is no problem reading chinese web content. I use Firefox Portable 11 /English from portableapps.com in Windows XP.
I googled and got some tips:
1) Set your browser to recognise Chinese language internet sites.
Windows users: Under "Tools - Options" on your browser's menu-bar add Chinese to the languages list.
- I did this.
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No I didn't change anything deep beneath the hood. My problem didn't apply to the URL, but to the name of the link or bookmark header or whatever you would like to call it. (When hitting Ctrl + D there is a Name field). I only got ???????? instead of chinese characters in the name. Also for e.g. www.cntv.cn ...but maybe all China is not in the whitelist either. ;-) But anyway, this was not the real problem for me.
Apparently I was wrong as after a reboot of the computer it worked. The solution seemed to be to add Chinese to the language list. I don't know why it was not enough to restart Firefox?
Now I only have problems to show chinese characters in the name field of my external link manager... But I guess it is not an issue for Mozilla.

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It seems to me that in a previous version of Firefox that one could add a bookmark to the Bookmarks Toolbar and have it stay there.
I like to keep things neat and tidy. Now when I delete this bookmark from the Recently Bookmarked list (or the Unsorted Bookmarks list), Firefox insists only deleting it from the Bookmarks Toolbar as well.
How do I add a bookmark to the Bookmarks toolbar and keep it there? Am I required to keep it in the Recently Bookmarked and/or Unsorted Bookmarks list in order to have it remain on the Bookmarks Toolbar?

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* Smart folders show a list created by a query of the places.sqlite database that stores bookmarks and history in Firefox.
* Smart folder lists show a maximum of 10 entries by default.
* Bookmarks and history items that show up in a smart folder list are stored elsewhere in another folder and any changes made are applied to the real bookmark or history item.
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Do you have that problem when running in the Firefox SafeMode?
[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode]
''Don't select anything right now, just use "Continue in SafeMode."''
If not, see this:
[http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes]

Changing the default bookmarks save location

Heya,
If i right-click a website and click "Bookmark this page". It brings up the bookmark panel with the default folder "Bookmarks Menu" is there any way i can change this default ?
"I dont mind if it goes deep into the firefox:config, system or regedit as i am mostly computer savie :)"

''Changing the default bookmarks save location:''
You would do better clicking on the bookmark star on the Location Bar.
You can install "Add Bookmark Here2" and probably make modifications in the options.
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Take it to your local Apple Store or AASP, it's covered by a 1 year hardware warranty. If you have AppleCare then give them a call but I'm pretty sure they will advise the same. If you have not purchased AppleCare yet please do, this will extend the warranty to 3 years however it MUST be purchased within the first year of ownership. Let it go 366 days and you are out of luck. AppleCare will also include telephone support too.
Good luck.

How do I transfer my bookmarks from one computer to another? I have Firefox Home on my phone and I can get them there, but I want to have the same bookmarks on my home computer as I do on my work computer.

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Sounds like you want to set up Firefox Sync. This will allow you to keep all of your instances of Firefox synchronized. Just follow the steps in [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/what-firefox-sync?s=sync&r=0&as=s this article] and you'll be set.
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I have been organizing my bookmarks into folders. There are a bunch of bookmarks that appear on the Bookmarks Menu that do not appear when I used the Organize Bookmarks option. Therefore I can't organize them. How do I get at them and move them to folders

I used Organize Bookmarks to put some bookmarks in folders. When I had done all the bookmarks that appeared outside of folders in the Organize Bookmarks window, I closed it and looked at my bookmarks menu. Under my folders were some other bookmarks that I hadn't seen in Organize Bookmarks and when I used it again, they still weren't visible. Therefore, I couldn't move them into folders.

Update - I discovered that the entire list of bookmarks can be accessed in the Organize Bookmarks window by clicking on the icon for Bookmarks Menu.
This seem like odd interface behaviour to me.
All the other software I use follows the pattern that an icon with a triangle to the left, which you click on to expand the menu tree downwards, shows the entire contents of the category when you click on the triangle. In other words, you don't get a different response by clicking on the icon from what you get by clicking on the triangle.
It also seems odd to me that when an unsorted bookmarks folder is automatically provided that unsorted bookmarks would not be placed there by default.
Anyway, by getting the list of bookmarks displayed this way I was able to simply right-click on items in the list and delete them, as I thought I should be able to do. Problem solved. Organize Bookmarks interface found to be somewhat unintuitive.

HT5372 Is it possible to sync tabs without having to merge bookmarks? I dont want or need the same bookmarks on both my macs.

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To export them select 'Import and Backup' then 'Export HTML'. Save the file to somewhere safe on your PC, My Documents perhaps.
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How do I configure Firefox so that when I open the bookmarks drop-down list, the previous bookmark that I clicked in the same session is high-lighted - especially if it's located in a sub-folder (just like IE)?

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