Bookmarks Toolbar folder
Favorites Bar folder
BookmarksBar folder
I also use internet Explorer. It pulls the favorites list from the same location. I haven't noticed it creating additional instances, but it will show the multiple copies.
At the moment there are about 20 instances of each in the favorites drop down. It's a nuisance to have to delete them every few days.
I posted a question on the Firefox support group, but haven't gotten a workable solution.
I tried to deinstall and reinstall Firefox, but that was useless. Apparently Firefox leaves a bunch of crap behind when it uninstalls.
My next step is to deinstall and see if I can find a list of "leave behind" crap to delete as well.
Any ideas?
I switched about a year ago. No problems ever since.
wheel,
No issues with bookmarks either.
John
Uninstall and then reinstall Firefox.
If you want to save favorites try a bookmark manager like Xmarks to sync all your bookmarks.
Google Chrome isn't an option. I'm not a fan of Google's business practices, nor am I fan of the politics of it's owner. The only good thing I can say about Google Chrome is the plugin that allows you to see where Free Fall auctions bottom out.
I do use their search engine, but only as an anyomous user.
The few gmail accounts that I have were only used when I was banned from here and needed bogus accounts for abrignac001, 002, etc...
As far a a bookmarks manager, My book marks are already sync'd. IE and Firefox looks to the same folder to populate their lists. Any change I make on one automatically populates the other.
Chrome is good, but Google has it f'ing nose in too much already.
Gene363 wrote:
Already did that. See OP.
And Lync will turn a fast computer into a slow abacus...
fenderbendertex wrote:
Not a big fan of free addon's either. It's been my experience that few free addon's are truly free. The cost is usually background ad scripts, or worse, that causes bog downs.
Abrignac wrote:
My bad, I assumed you completely removed all user data too, see, "Removing user profile data" here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_Firefox
I also assume you have no add-ons, extra tool bars etc.
What did you do?
Wait, what? You got banned from here?
MACS wrote:
That was back during the free TW days. I hypothesized that a certain person who no longer posts here was perhaps under a certain cone of protection. IIRC, I actually had three different accounts banned back to back. I think I made it up to abrignac003 before this account was freed from bondage its 3 day bondage. Good thing as I was out of credit cards to register new accounts. Well, I could have used my wife's if needed.
Didn't try that. Thanks Gene.
Well didn't work. I uninstalled Firefox, deleted all the Firefox directories I could find and removed all the profile info. Reinstalled and its back doing the same old.
Sounds like you have a virus or the remnants of an errant program. Can you restore a backup point from the time before the problem showed it ugly head?
I found this about IE:
http://forums.techguy.org/web-email/1126928-ie-11-favorites-duplicating-hundreds.html
"Finally solved!!! It's the iCloud control panel! Anyone having this issue, uncheck Bookmarks in that control panel, then go into your Internet Explorer's Favorites Toolbar folder and delete all the copies - they won't come back. If the iCloud panel is on multiple computers you need to uncheck it on them as well."
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/504948/duplicate-ie-favorites-files-cannot-delete/
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/996121
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/duplicate-favorites-folder-in-documents.3027643/
http://serverfault.com/questions/340579/dealing-with-duplicate-folders-in-a-win7-roaming-profile-redirected-environment
http://www.zdnet.com/article/icloud-bug-creates-thousands-of-duplicate-bookmarks/
I prefer Firefox myself over chrome.
