For years, going back to last century, in all the iterations of Mozilla browsers, I have been able to enter data into the Bookmarks/Properties/Description field and save it. These days I enter the data and hit the Save button, but nothing is saved.
Much worse, all of my descriptions data for my bookmarks has been cleared/deleted by Firefox. I am left with just an empty field. As I generally put my login data in that field, I have lost all of my login data for decades of saved browsing bookmarks, and as new data entered into the field is no longer saved, I can't manually update the bookmarks.
As the login data for many sites is saved separately in Firefox, when I go to many sites I am automatically logged in. But any other data, such as phone numbers or contact names, is gone.
How do I regain the ability to save data in bookmarks, and how do I keep Firefox from deleting/clearing bookmark Properties/Description data?
I'm using Firefox 56.2.1 on a Windows 10 system.
Cannot save bookmark descriptions
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
This confuses me Firefox 56.2.1 ?? There was a 56.0.2. version, but never a 56.2.# version.
In Firefox 62.0b5 the Description field is gone from Bookmarks Properties. The Description data still exists, but in Fx 64 it will be removed.
Related Bugzilla reports.
Bug 1460577 - [meta] Remove support for bookmark annotations
Bug 1467131 - Clean up bookmark annotation data once annotations have been removed
Bug 1402890 - Stop supporting and remove the description annotation
Bug 1463738 - Remove the Bookmark description UI [62]
In Firefox 62.0b5 the Description field is gone from Bookmarks Properties. The Description data still exists, but in Fx 64 it will be removed.
Related Bugzilla reports.
Bug 1460577 - [meta] Remove support for bookmark annotations
Bug 1467131 - Clean up bookmark annotation data once annotations have been removed
Bug 1402890 - Stop supporting and remove the description annotation
Bug 1463738 - Remove the Bookmark description UI [62]
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
In your Firefox profile folder, you hopefully will find numerous .jsonlz4 files in the bookmarkbackups folder.
To convert one of these files to an HTML page -- which hopefully will give you a clean backup of your description data from before you lost it -- you can use this tool:
https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/bookbackreader.html
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If you want to restore one of the .jsonlz4 backups to your live Firefox bookmarks (overwriting your current set), see: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/restore- ... -move-them
To convert one of these files to an HTML page -- which hopefully will give you a clean backup of your description data from before you lost it -- you can use this tool:
https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/bookbackreader.html
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If you want to restore one of the .jsonlz4 backups to your live Firefox bookmarks (overwriting your current set), see: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/restore- ... -move-them
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
the-edmeister Sorry for the confusion. Since it became available, I have been using Waterfox, the 64-bit version of Firefox compiled by Alex Kontos. The current version of Waterfox is 56.2.1.
1. How can I transfer over my present Waterfox profile to Fx 64? Will a simple copy and paste work?
2. Can another field in FX 64 bookmarks be used to add in notes?
jscher2000 Thanks for your reply. I have a lot of .jsonlz4 files both in my bookmarkbackups folder going back to February of 2017, and in my sessionstore-backups going back to February of this year. One of the early versions from sessionstore-backups should work.
That brings up two questions:The Description data still exists, but in Fx 64 it will be removed.
1. How can I transfer over my present Waterfox profile to Fx 64? Will a simple copy and paste work?
2. Can another field in FX 64 bookmarks be used to add in notes?
jscher2000 Thanks for your reply. I have a lot of .jsonlz4 files both in my bookmarkbackups folder going back to February of 2017, and in my sessionstore-backups going back to February of this year. One of the early versions from sessionstore-backups should work.
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
Suppose your Restore - .jsonlz4 - feature stopped making backups 7 days ago and you want 3 days ago Bookmarks restored.
IF you rename Today's - places.sqlite- to (.old) and paste the Same File from a 3-days-ago saved Profile ... does THAT give you a usable Bookmark Folder from 3 days ago?
IF you rename Today's - places.sqlite- to (.old) and paste the Same File from a 3-days-ago saved Profile ... does THAT give you a usable Bookmark Folder from 3 days ago?
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
costark that's what I'm going to try, although as I have saved no new bookmarks in the past few weeks, I will go back to an earlier version, maybe in May.
What I don't understand is why some bookmark descriptions have deleted themselves and others have remained.
What I don't understand is why some bookmark descriptions have deleted themselves and others have remained.
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
My desktop computer has an older version installed than on my laptop, and all of the bookmark description data displays normally there. I will copy the most recent .jsonlz4 file from my desktop's profile and paste it into my laptop's profile folder.
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
I wonder if the Waterfox developer made a change to Firefox code and did away with the Description feature for Bookmarks?
Or maybe he broke it inadvertently for saving new Descriptions?
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Or maybe he broke it inadvertently for saving new Descriptions?
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
Make sure that browser.places.useAsyncTransactions is set to false. I needed to backport at least 1 fix to SeaMonkey 2.53 based on 56 for this to work.
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Re: Cannot save bookmark descriptions
Thanks frg. I was hoping your suggestion would be the solution, but in this profile browser.places.useAsyncTransactionsfile was already set to false.
At this point, I can neither export (save) my present laptop bookmarks nor import bookmarks saved from my desktop profile to my laptop profile. The desktop profile is working normally.
the-edmeister I have logged into the Waterfox forum and will ask your ask your question there, but I want to try a few more solutions first. I'm thinking of downloading and installing the 64-bit version of Firefox, but unsure how much of my present profile I should copy over.
At this point, I can neither export (save) my present laptop bookmarks nor import bookmarks saved from my desktop profile to my laptop profile. The desktop profile is working normally.
the-edmeister I have logged into the Waterfox forum and will ask your ask your question there, but I want to try a few more solutions first. I'm thinking of downloading and installing the 64-bit version of Firefox, but unsure how much of my present profile I should copy over.