Right-clicking on bookmark causes a problem...

This is a situation which has just started to occur and I can find no reference to it in either the FF support forum, FF 'help', nor the archives on this forum.

If I right click on a bookmark within a folder, a little white square appears over the name of the item and then I can no longer see any of the bookmarks in that folder.

The only way to restore seeing the individual bookmarks within that folder is to close and then reopen FF.

I'm sure this is a simple fix but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone help?

 

That's one I've not heard of before ... is everything normal when you click (LMB) on a bookmark?

I don't have an answer for you, except to suggest that you NOT right-click on your bookmarks until a solution becomes available ... everything that can be done with the choices available on the context menu that should appear can also be done by other means.

BTW, what version and build of FF are you using? Themes? Extensions?

 

Left-clicking results in just what one would expect....no problems with left clicking.

I'm using FF version 1.0.2 for Windows (XP Home), default theme, and the only extension is ForecastFox.

 

Hi doubleu,

I don't use the ForecastFox extension, but I noticed that it's been updated to version 0.7.1 within the last month. Are you current?

Also, you might try updating FF to a more recent 1.0.3 test build. Before doing so, though, I'd suggest removing any traces of FF from your registry, as this may also be causing your problem. See items 4 and 5 in my post #4 in this thread, substituting "firefox" (no quotes) for "tbird" or "thunderbird ".

Just out of curiosity, where are you in Ontario? I grew up in NW Ohio many years ago, and I used to go fishing with my Dad each summer on the lakes and rivers between North Bay and Mattawa.

 

I have 1.03, but all previous versions behaved properly. I right click to rename the individual too wordy or uninformative bookmarks' prperties from Manage bookmarks. Under what conditions do you right click, and why?
By the way, I tried to right in other ways, no problem.
But, I must agree with Jim, the best solution is not to right click. And, if you really have to, creating a new profile seems to me as the only solution

 

I hadn't thought of a new profile, Westside, because I so seldom have a profile problem, but it's worth a shot.

doubleu...

Try creating a new profile, and see if you have the same bookmarks problem. If not, copy the bookmarks.html file from your original profile, and see if the problem persists. If it does, your original bookmarks.html file is probably corrupt ... if it doesn't, the problem lay with another file in your original profile.

 

Westside hits 1000

Hey, Westside, I just noticed something. Congratulations on your 1000th post!

 

Wow, but you are ahead of me.

 

I didn't know we were in a race. Look at Ramona's total ... or BillyBob's, or Newt's!

 

I had never noticed the numbers, so, I must have been in the race by myself.
Signature fixed.

 

But, it can be edited.

 

Fixed=Edited

 

Sorry, I misunderstood you, but you need to fix it again.

Firefox and Tbird aren't 1.03 and 1.02, they're 1.0.3 and 1.0.2, respectively.

 

Thanks for all your suggestions. Here's some background and an update:

I had an earlier problem with FF which is detailed, ad nauseum, in this link .

Consequently, I have two profiles, the original and the new one I used to fix the earlier problem.

I tried copying the bookmarks.html file from the original profile to the new profile, but that reintroduced the original problem (don't know why, but it did). Tried copying the bookmarks.html file from the original to a new (or third) profile...that eliminated the carried-over earlier problem, but didn't fix the problem that's the subject of this thread. Similarly, tried copying the bookmark file from the second profile to the third....problem still persists.

So.......I'm simply going to live with this problem (that is, the one that's the subject of this thread) as I can manage the bookmarks another way rather than by right clicking on them. I believe the problem lies somewhere in the second profile (the one I've returned to using as creating a third profile didn't help) but I'm reluctant to mess around with other files as I really don't know what I'm doing.

Finally...to answer the question about where I am in Ontario...I'm in London, which is half-way between Toronto (remember the Blue Jays/Maple Leafs?) and Detroit (remember the Tigers/Red Wings?), a 6 hour drive from North Bay.

 

Hi,
this is the second weird one I saw this week. If you, physically, copied and pasted the bookmarks.html, I can think of only one thing to do, i.e. thin down the file (after seeing your post I did just that, and cut the 256 Kb file in half by eliminating any duplication, or any bookmarks which I did not recognize), and having more than one profile follow this process (from Ramona's Netscape Solutions):
Rename the bookmarks.html file to Xbookmarks.html
Open Netscape
A pristine copy of bookmarks.html will be created
To ensure that the new file is working, add a bookmark
If this works, then open the Bookmark Manager
Click on Tools | Import
Import the Xbookmarks.html file
Your bookmarks should be restored

This is done for corrupted files which cannot be seen. May be this will work for your problem.

 

Westside ...

Doubleu is using Firefox, not Netscape. I know that on my FF, "Import" is found on the File menu, and allows me to import data only from IE.

 

My FF has like all other browsers, a Bookmarks button on the Menu Bar. That one allows you to select Manage Bookmarks, and Manage Bookmarks has File|Import. You can import anything you wish. Is Ramona's solution going to help? I don't know, but it could. It is something to try, not dogma.
As for other File|Import, it is the Import Wizard, and it is supposed to be to import setings from IE, NS6/7 or Mozilla, NS4.x and Opera. I, really, don't care if it works with only IE.

First my apologies to everyone else. And, Jim, this is getting very irritating. You said something to which I should have never answered, in an early post, and then it has been one put down after the other.
I think that we are trying to help "doubleu ".
You if have anything else to say, please come up with an useful suggestion.
And, we can communicate by Private Message (upper right). You have one since the day before yesterday

 

Something must be wrong with the Release then, as you should be able to Import not only IE, but also Netscape 4.x 6, 7, and Mozilla 1.x. This is my Import menu, in the attached file.

Ramona

 

Westside ...

There have been no "put downs ", and I'm sorry that you've misinterpreted as such anything I've said.

Thank you for your helpful remarks; I'll try to do better in the future. As you suggest, we're only trying to help doubleu.


Ramona ...

This really is strange. I have identical builds of Firefox (1.0.3, 04-15-05) on both my desktop and my laptop computers, but the Import Wizards show different selections. The Wizard called from Firefox's File menu allows for the importation of "Options, Bookmarks, History, Passwords and other data ". On my desktop computer, running XP Pro SP-1, the choices are

"Microsoft Internet Explorer"

"Netscape 4.x "​

while on my laptop, running XP Pro SP-2, I have only a single choice,

"Microsoft Internet Explorer" ​

As Westside suggests, there is also an Import Wizard which can be called from the Bookmarks Manager's File menu, but it is limited to the importation of bookmarks only. On my desktop, that Wizard has selections of

"Microsoft Internet Explorer"

"Netscape 4.x "

"From File "​

while my laptop shows

"Microsoft Internet Explorer "

"From File "​

If, after upgrading to the release build of 1.0.3, anything has changed, I'll edit this post to reflect the changes.

EDIT: After posting this, I got to thinking that the difference between what Ramona shows and what I show might have something to do with the fact that I usually use the daily zipped builds, and she uses (I think) the official releases.

This morning I downloaded the official 1.0.3 release, which, after cleaning the registry of any mentions of Firefox, I installed on my laptop. At the same time, I downloaded the zipped 04-17 Aviary build of Firefox 1.0.4 (using Gecko 1.7.8 ... the 1.0.3 release uses 1.7.7) and "installed" it on my desktop.

After doing so, I checked the two Import Wizards on each computer. They are identical to what I reported above.

Thinking that it might have something to do with my profile (I've been using the same one for months), I created a brand new one on the laptop, but the Wizards remain the same. Why they differ from each other between the two computers, and from what Ramons shows, I have no idea.
As mentioned above, the only difference is that the desktop uses XP Pro SP-1, while the laptop uses XP Pro SP-2.

 

Hi, Jim,

Do you have Netscape 4.xx installed on both the desktop and the laptop?

In Firefox 1.0.3, File > Import, I show:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Netscape 6,7 or Mozilla 1.x

I don't have Netscape 4.xx installed on my WinXp sp1 computer. I DO have Netscape 7.2 and Mozilla 1.77 installed.

mike