My Firefox profile is OLD and HUGE. It goes back to Netscape Navigator in some respects. I decided to try and trim it down and speed things up. I exported passwords and backed up bookmarks. I started with a clean profile and imported those two items. I then added back some addons (less a couple which were obsolete or discontinued.) I now have a working profile which is ONLY 45 MB (instead of 75 MB.)
I do see one thing missing. On my current profile I see various icons next to my bookmarks. In the new profile I only see a generic globe next to each bookmark. I seem to recall that MANY years ago I had to do something to make these icons appear but honestly I have no idea how or what I did.
Would someone please help me with this?
TIA,
Ken
The little icons next to bookmarks
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Re: The little icons next to bookmarks
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If you visit a bookmarked site the icon should appear.
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If you visit a bookmarked site the icon should appear.
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Re: The little icons next to bookmarks
Thanks RobertJ,
I thought that would do the trick. However, it seems to be hit and miss. I have a group of bookmarks in a folder on the bookmark bar. I opened all in tabs and only 4 of 11 bookmarks picked up their icons. On my "production" profile 10 of the 11 have individual icons. Perhaps Firefox will learn them all over time. I vaguely remember there being some technique to kick the thing in the pants and make it populate the icons but I have no idea what it was. I observe that 10 of the 11 sites have icons on their tabs but these have not spread to the bookmarks.
I see some interesting computers in your sig. I have used an RCA Spectra 70, CDC 6600, Heathkit H8, Commodore Vic 20, Osborne Executive prior to a long list of "PC compatibles." At work various mainframes from the IBM and Amdahl through the "e" Series ca. 2005, a PDP 11/780, various HPUX servers etc. After an early - early retirement in 2005 I have moved all of my PC to Linux - and added a couple of Raspberry Pi devices. They make a great firewall/router/VPN box (and a low energy bit-torrent toy
Thanks again,
Ken
I thought that would do the trick. However, it seems to be hit and miss. I have a group of bookmarks in a folder on the bookmark bar. I opened all in tabs and only 4 of 11 bookmarks picked up their icons. On my "production" profile 10 of the 11 have individual icons. Perhaps Firefox will learn them all over time. I vaguely remember there being some technique to kick the thing in the pants and make it populate the icons but I have no idea what it was. I observe that 10 of the 11 sites have icons on their tabs but these have not spread to the bookmarks.
I see some interesting computers in your sig. I have used an RCA Spectra 70, CDC 6600, Heathkit H8, Commodore Vic 20, Osborne Executive prior to a long list of "PC compatibles." At work various mainframes from the IBM and Amdahl through the "e" Series ca. 2005, a PDP 11/780, various HPUX servers etc. After an early - early retirement in 2005 I have moved all of my PC to Linux - and added a couple of Raspberry Pi devices. They make a great firewall/router/VPN box (and a low energy bit-torrent toy
Thanks again,
Ken
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Re: The little icons next to bookmarks
Just for your own piece of mind... and maybe discover 'a' bookmarks file problem... you might want to create another profile and just use it as-is... then visit those problem sites that you have, bookmark them and then check to see if the icons are there. Not sure if you know about the no-remote switch but you can have both profiles running at the same time...
Opening a new instance of your Mozilla application with another profile - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
Opening a new instance of your Mozilla application with another profile - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
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