On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 03:05:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all ff experts; > > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering that > dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever retention of > bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low, or a timeout that is > quicker than it is useful. Looking at bookmarks, and its been about a > month since I logged in to move a few sheckels around, I needed to do > that again, and find that bookmark and login have been expired out of > access if not out of the machine. Obviously that, being my banking, has > never been written down. I have foolishly depended on my browser to > remember all that. >
Firefox has a sync feature: if you still have one machine with a working Firefox and profile, you can sync it across to the (now) bullseye machine. > Is that fixable from the about:config menu. to restore the former > hundreds of bookmarks it had back in stretch, or do I have to find > another browser and start all over. > Did you ever copy the your directory (including the firefox folder) to another machine as backup? > In that event, suggestions investigated. > > Thank you. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > All best, as ever, Andy Cater
