# Bookmarks I cannot delete, strangle, blow up or smother. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 19, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900 "2008-05-19T21:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/1 "2008-05-19T21:43:27Z")
I have three bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar that I can’t get rid of: Whig Party, Thomas A. Bailey, and Problem Loading. There’s a little x in each bookmark’s box. Hover the cursor over it and it turns red. Click on the red x and the bookmark disappears. But when I restart the browser all three come back. :mad: :mad: :mad: Help. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/2 "2008-05-19T21:50:05Z")
Windiws XP, Firefox Browser. And I’ve scoured my Bookmarks for these things and cannot find them. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/3 "2008-05-19T22:50:01Z")
Sounds more like you are describing a tab than a bookmark. Check to see if you have several sites for your homepage, separated by | characters. Firefox allows you to do that to have multiple home pages, each brought up in a separate tab. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/4 "2008-05-19T23:31:32Z")
[QUOTE=yabob] Sounds more like you are describing a tab than a bookmark. Check to see if you have several sites for your homepage, separated by | characters. Firefox allows you to do that to have multiple home pages, each brought up in a separate tab. [/QUOTE] Thanks, **yabob**. Under Tools-Options I found that you’re right. How do I correct the problem, please? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/5 "2008-05-19T23:38:43Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] How do I correct the problem, please? [/QUOTE] Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself, but does deleting everything but the one you actually want for you home page not work? ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/6 "2008-05-20T00:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself, but does deleting everything but the one you actually want for you home page not work? [/QUOTE] I copied my preferred home page URL, and pasted it in the appropriate Tools-Options window, and now I have just that page as my homie. have two Toolbars: Navigation Toolbar and below that. Bookmarks Toolbar. It’s the latter that has the problems. If I remove either one, the problems move to the other Drivng me nuts.. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/7 "2008-05-20T00:06:22Z")
In the Bookmark toolbar, point to a bookmark you want to delete, right-click, choose “Delete”. Bookmark gone! ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/8 "2008-05-20T00:14:45Z")
[QUOTE=Terminus Est] In the Bookmark toolbar, point to a bookmark you want to delete, right-click, choose “Delete”. Bookmark gone! [/QUOTE] You will not believe this,perhaps, but when I right click as you suggest, I don’t get a Delete option in the Bookmarks Toolbar. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/9 "2008-05-20T00:27:07Z")
Just for fun, what options do you get? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/10 "2008-05-20T00:27:49Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] You will not believe this,perhaps, but when I right click as you suggest, I don’t get a Delete option in the Bookmarks Toolbar. [/QUOTE] Try highlighting the bookmark, then hit Ctrl-d. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/11 "2008-05-20T01:19:43Z")
I turned off the browser, then just opened it and the problem seems to have been solved! I have just the Bookmaks Toolbar, and damned if I’m gonna add the Navigation Toolbar. **KneadToKnow** ’ - I now have the Delete option when I right click the Bookmarks Toolbar. Maybe having just one page as my home page turned the trick, as you suggested? See my Copy and Paste post above, inspired by your on the money deduction.) Thank you!!! ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bookmarks-i-cannot-delete-strangle-blow-up-or-smother/449900/12 "2008-05-20T02:30:11Z")
What’s more my browser is fast and trouble free. During the trouble, it was slow and malfunctioning like crazy. Ole and TY!!!