On Saturday, January 22, 2022 4:02:37 PM EST piorunz wrote: > On 22/01/2022 20:05, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all ff experts; > > > > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox > > Oldstable (Debian 10 Buster), and Oldoldstable (Debian 9 Stretch) are > using EXACTLY the same version of Firefox, 91.5.0. Nothing has changed > on that front. > See here: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr > > , 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, > > Being your banking - bingo!! Login retention time (in cookies) has been > set by your bank. Probably to one month, as you discovered. Ask them. > This (probably) has nothing to do with Firefox. > Just to be sure, that your Firefox doesn't not interfere with banking > cookies, go to Firefox settings, Privacy & Security tab, and check what > Browser Policy you are using. "Standard" is pretty much normal, but if > you are using "Strict" this may interfere with some cookies.
That setting is "standard". I have probably added at least 25 new bookmarks in the last month, but all I can see is about 10 of the most recent, and it will only scroll to maybe 3 more, which are all ff boiler plate at the bottom of the list. > has > > > never been written down. I have foolishly depended on my browser to > > remember all that. > > > > 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. > > Sorry but I don't understand your connection between logged in pages > (in cookies) and bookmarks. Are you saying now, that you lost > bookmarks list in your Firefox profile? lost bookmarks, hundreds. > Or that you have been logged > out of some pages? If that's the bookmarks saved in your Firefox > profile, what steps have you taken to save/preserve/restore your > profile? Well obviously they want that stuff "in the cloud" so they can browse it and sell me stuff. So just as obviously I have ignored all that 'cloud' bs. Historically If the bank times out the cookie, they'll ask me a secondary security question before letting me in, but that, until now has never removed a bookmark. With 32 gigs of ram in this machine, and /home is a 2T raid10 on SSD's, restricting memory or storage space used for bookmarks & passwds is a total and absolute non-starter. So why isn't ff saving bookmarks? Since chromium is on its way out, and you can probably hear me cheering that from there, what else is their today? > -- > With kindest regards, Piotr. > > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ > > . 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>
