Double trouble

[french frank]

I have Firefox browser 37.0.2 (just upgraded) with Mavericks. I'm not sure if this happened with the new FF upgrade, but my bookmarks sidebar has all the items duplicated in two separate lists. They're somehow connected because if I delete a bookmark from one list it disappears from the other as well.

I suppose it's not really a practical nuisance: it just annoys me

Any suggestions?

[Beef Oven!]

I suppose it's not really a practical nuisance: it just annoys me

Any suggestions?

Camomile tea.

[french frank]

Camomile tea.

Nope. I've just tried that but the duplicate list is still there

[Beef Oven!]

Nope. I've just tried that but the duplicate list is still there

That was my ace card.

[richardfinegold]

geez, from the title of this thread I thought that I was going to be reading about Stevie Ray Vaughn

[Anastasius]

If I understand you correctly, you have two bookmark sidebars containing identical bookmarks? Can you just close one of them? At least it will get it out of the way. I just upgraded Firefox to the same version as you and I just get the one sidebar.

[french frank]

If I understand you correctly, you have two bookmark sidebars containing identical bookmarks? Can you just close one of them? At least it will get it out of the way. I just upgraded Firefox to the same version as you and I just get the one sidebar.

No, one sidebar, two lists, the second following straight on from the first. Deleting anything on one list also removes it automatically from the other

At the top are the Most Visited &c. Fine. Then Get Bookmark Add-ons, followed by my bookmarks. At the bottom Get Bookmark Add-ons appears again, followed by the same bookmarks, all updating as I update my top list. It's like being stalked …

[french frank]

I'm not alone, but this dates back to 2011 - no solution? It may be the sync as it appears to have stopped working with the Macbook

[johnb]

[Edit: deleted previous reply and replaced with:]

This is the best I could find that relates to your problem: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/996121

The answer at the bottom of the webpage might be helpful.

[french frank]

[Edit: deleted previous reply and replaced with:]

This is the best I could find that relates to your problem: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/996121

The answer at the bottom of the webpage might be helpful.

Looks like the same problem, thanks. All that delving into places I don't know how to find seems to mean I'm stuck with the problem and I'll have to find a psychological solution (i.e. ignore it)

[french frank]

A final word on this:

Fiddling around putting bookmark folders up on the horizontal bookmark bar, like other people, and close my bookmarks sidebar, I accidentally deleted a whole folder (I didn't realise that placing it on the bookmarks bar, then deciding to delete it, just zapped the whole thing. I thought the original folder would still be in the sidebar).

Anyhow, delving into 'How to get back a Firefox deleted bookmarks folder' I found a relatively painless way to do it via FF's own back-up system (not Time Machine). The slight inconvenience of finding I had to do all my recent reorganising again was counterbalanced by finding I now only have one set of bookmarks in the sidebar. Not that that will matter if I stop using the sidebar anyway, but still … It is knowledge, and knowledge is power.

I'm sure this is all very clear to people who don't use their sidebars, don't use Firefox, don't suffer from double vision and weren't there at the time.