Mozilla Firefox not showing bookmarks toolbar

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

Does anyone here use Dogpile.com - a meta-search engine - as your homepage on Mozilla Firefox? Do your internet url 'bookmarks' toolbar show up on a Mozilla section of the webpage screen or does the bookmarks tool show up via the dogpile.com toolbar? At the moment I have zero bookmarks toolbars. Meaning no access to any of my bookmarks.

Last night I accidentally unpinned Firefox from my computer's bottom taskbar. When I discovered its absence this morning I dragged the Firefox icon down from the main screen that opens once the computer has booted up - and this reinstalled Firefox to the taskbar. However, I noticed when I did open up Firefox it had returned to default mode. I use Dogpile.com as my homepage when I open up Firefox. I had to set Dogpile.com back up as the Firefox homepage.

Then I noticed I did not have a bookmarks toolbar!!!![bawl]

I have followed the Mozilla Firefox instructions of clicking on the menu - the three horizontal lines > selecting 'More tools' > Customize toolbars> Toolbars clicked on 'Bookmarks tool bar, clicked in the box to tick ALWAYS SHOW and then clicked on Done. To zero effect. No bookmark tool.

So, I am stumped - I have been to Dogpile and searched online to see if I need to do something in Dogpile to get it to acknowledge the Firefox bookmarks toolbar - to get zero results.

I am about to try the Firefox instructions again - and then use the old fall back position . Shut down my computer and wait a while. Turn it back on and fingers crossed my bookmark tool bar appears

Oh, here is a bit raspberry to the mental giant in Firefox that decided the Firefox 'home button' should be taken from the taskbar. I had to go hunting via online searches to find a way to 'customise' Firefox to get the home button showing again - How user unfriendly is that! I am not the only person to think this way. One Firefox member in the thread about how to reinstall the Home button said - 'fire the idiot who thought it was a good thing to remove the Home button". Well - they did use less polite words than that.


Any help getting my bookmarks toolbar back again - and my related bookmarks will most greatly appreciated.

Kind regards
Lionel

[AK83]

You have a problem if you've gone through the settings ... sorry can't help for that, but as a temp quick access to the tool sidebar, try that instead(until you can work out whats wrong)

In the menu bar, go to view-> sidebar->bookmarks. At least you have easy access from there too.

Note that on the sidebar, you have both a bookmarks toolbar(all the bookmarks you have up top in the toolbar) AND you have a bookmarks menu.
The bookmarks menu can have different/more/less bookmarks to the Bookmarks toolbar .. ie. they can be configured differently.

[Lionelgee]

Hello Arthur,

Thank you for the prompt reply - very much appreciated.

Here is the very weird thing... After repeated failed attempts of following Firefox's instructions to get the bookmarks toolbar to 'always show'; I found to get access to AULRO I had to go through my password manager. When I do so - the bookmarks toolbar and ALL MY BOOKMARKS reappear. This is of course a very good thing. At least I know that my bookmarks are all still 'there' within the computer system.

While in AULRO I could go to any other of my bookmarks. However, if I right-click on the Firefox icon to open a new Firefox window ... the bookmarks toolbar does not show.

Also, when I shutdown and restart the computer - no bookmarks toolbar ... sign in to a program via my password manager - bingo there is the bookmarks toolbar back again... Go figure!

Kind regards
Lionel

[incisor]

sounds like an issue with the password manager addon imho

i have deleted a few of them becuse they dont do as they should

bitwarden is about to get the same treatment if i cannot sort it....

[Tins]

Just my opinion. but I think Firefox is no longer to be trusted. They deleted their "it's a promise" thing re privacy and data selling. They have openly declared that they will become an AI browser, which will make the browser open to "prompt injection" attacks, and they obtain the bulk of their revenue from goggle, so goggle is set as default search on FF.Their efficiency and resource management is WAY behind Chrome and Safari. I am on a Mac, but I don't use the native Safari. I am using Brave, which is like Chrome in many ways but it ain't goggle. FF is dead to me, they have betrayed our trust.. Of course, Brave may morph into something I don't like as well. But it's good now.

Like I said, just my opinion.

[Lionelgee]

Just my opinion. but I think Firefox is no longer to be trusted. They deleted their "it's a promise" thing re privacy and data selling. They have openly declared that they will become an AI browser, which will make the browser open to "prompt injection" attacks, and they obtain the bulk of their revenue from goggle, so goggle is set as default search on FF.Their efficiency and resource management is WAY behind Chrome and Safari. I am on a Mac, but I don't use the native Safari. I am using Brave, which is like Chrome in many ways but it ain't goggle. FF is dead to me, they have betrayed our trust.. Of course, Brave may morph into something I don't like as well. But it's good now.

Like I said, just my opinion.

Hello Tins,

Hmmm.... that opens some food for thought... Well I suppose - the way Dogpile.com has progressed from just being a search engine within my decades or use - I am doubling up on web browsers. I could just give FF the flick and since I have Dogpile set as my web browzing homepage anyway - I could just use Dogpile ... just have to see if Dogpile offers ad blocking. More research needs to be done.

Kind regards
Lionel

[Lionelgee]

Hello All,

I sorta fixed the bookmark issue. Attempting to get Firefox to follow its own website's "help" service resulted in constant failures. So, I experimented. I opened up a program via the password vault and then just pinned the Firefox icon to the bottom taskbar. The next morning when I booted the computer up the Firefox icon was still pinned to the taskbar. Soon as I clicked on the icon a new window opened up and knock me down with a feather the missing Bookmarks Toolbar was there and so too all present and correct were my bookmarks.

Just opening a new Firefox shortcut/icon only used to produce a totally missing in action Bookmarks Toolbar. ... an empty space. Then Firefox's instructions to "Always Show" the Bookmarks Toolbar 'Always failed'... Go figure. Anyway I have all my old bookmarks again. Yes they have been saved on multiple locations too.

Kind regards
Lionel

[incisor]

Just my opinion. but I think Firefox is no longer to be trusted.

even at their worst firefox is still way better than the other options imho

some of the drivel i've read lately over this beggars belief, brave being touted as private is just beyond belief when one considers who is behind it and their deal with advertisers

vivaldi maybe a close second but i cannot stand the interface

firefox board has backtracked as well, after the tsunami of backlash hit

[loanrangie]

A recent FF update broke a lot of websites, i was just searching for a fix and all of a sudden its working again. I turned off auto update to try and avoid some of these failed updates in future.

[incisor]

A recent FF update broke a lot of websites, i was just searching for a fix and all of a sudden its working again. I turned off auto update to try and avoid some of these failed updates in future.

havent experienced that one thankfully

only site i have issues with is realestate.com.au but thats murdoch owned so i rarely visit it anyway

[incisor]

A recent FF update broke a lot of websites, i was just searching for a fix and all of a sudden its working again. I turned off auto update to try and avoid some of these failed updates in future.

found one affecting it to the point it locks firefox rock solid on my macbook

qidi.com.au

[loanrangie]

found one affecting it to the point it locks firefox rock solid on my macbook

qidi.com.au

I did a search to see if it was affecting anyone else and there were a number of sites not loading.