On Saturday, January 22, 2022 6:57:25 PM EST piorunz wrote: > On 22/01/2022 22:52, gene heskett wrote: > >> 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. > > I see. I didn't understood you originally. You were saying first about > being logged out of banking, which has nothing to do with bookmarks. > > >> 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? none other than an amanda backup. That drive went from working normally to fully self destructed overnight. One of 3 2T seagate drives, 2 of which have now failed, the third one has my amanda backups for the last 59 days of the failed drives life. I feel like I'm sitting next to a ticking time bomb.
> > 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. > > Let me ask again. You upgraded your system. Did you took any steps to > save/preserve/restore your Firefox profile? If not, you could be using > brand new profile. > All your bookmarks are all there I bet, in ~/.mozilla/firefox. Go to > that folder and have a look. Your profiles should be there. There could > be more than one. > To switch between profiles, launch Firefox with "--ProfileManager" > parameter. > Like: > firefox --ProfileManager > from terminal or ALT+F2 runner, for example. > > Also, Firefox has GUI-based bookmark manager called Library. Open > "Manage Bookmarks" from Firefox menu, or press Ctrl+Shift+O to access > it. There, you have Import and Backup menu. See Restore menu - you > will see all bookmark backups taken by Firefox over many months. Also, > you can select Choose file... to import bookmark backup from other > profile. All well and good, till I found I don't own the .mozilla/firefox directory and I of coarse don't have perms. See my post from 10 minutes or so earlier. > All bookmark backups are sitting in ~/.mozilla/firefox/name of your > profile/bookmarkbackups/ directory. > > > 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. > > No, browsing whatever page, your bank, yahoo.com, google, or really > whatever, that has nothing to do with bookmarks. No page is able to > remove your bookmark, EVER. Please don't confuse cookies and logged in > state via cookie with bookmarks, they are two separate things. > > > 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. > > Sorry I didn't understand what you mean by that. > > > So why isn't ff saving bookmarks? > > It is. Everything is working fine. I have same bookmarks profile in > Firefox for last 10 years or more. Migrating between Windows and Linux > alike. Sometimes by cloud, sometimes by exported bookmarks file, > sometimes by implanting my profile onto new machine. But I'd wager, since that is in your home dir, that you own every byte of it, For some reason I don't. > > Since chromium is on its way out, and you can probably > > hear me cheering that from there, what else is their today? > > Firefox is working absolutely fine. PEBCAC. Learn to use it a bit more. > Please try again with ~/.mozilla/firefox and "firefox -P" and bookmark > Library tricks as mentioned above. But first, I have to own it,and I don't. > -- > With kindest regards, Piotr. > > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ > > . Take care Piotr. 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>
