I notice the most recent iteration of firefox has changed the behavior of the “bookmarks” entry in the menu bar.
Before, clicking on “bookmarks” pulled down a list of my bookmarks. Pretty straightforward, because that’s what I wanted it to do.
Now, clicking on bookmarks offers the option to bookmark a given site, or to open a new window with the full list, but it won’t just show the damn things. I don’t want a sidebar taking up real estate on my screen.
So I finally had to customize the location bar area to include the dreaded stupid Internet-Explorer-star-for-“favorites” thing. (a bookmark is not a “favorite.” {It might be something you hate, but must access anyway.} It’s a bookmark.)
But now I have to click the icon, locate a menu entry, and click again. I hate it. Why on earth is that considered an improvement? Wasn’t anybody else using it the way I did?
So, should I just roll back to the previous firefox? Or can I change this behavior?
What version and OS are you on? I’m on Version 33.0.2 on Windows 7, and Firefox claims that it’s up to date. I don’t see the behavior you describe. I agree that it sounds awful.
ETA: I just now turned off automatic updates, in case this update is on the way.
Sounds like your bookmarks menu is screwed up. The location bar button should also be a single click thing.
Perhaps try going into the separate bookmarks window (Show All Bookmarks) and then click Import and Backup > Restore and pick a date before this happened.
Of course, that’s after you make sure you didn’t install an extra addon or something that has screwed things up. If you have an addon that is restoring your menu bar, you may try disabling that.
If all else fails, here’s how to Reset Firefox. You’ll keep your bookmarks and history, but lose your addons and button placement.
Stories like this, and umpty-ump others like it that I’ve read (many of them here on SDMB) over the last few years, is why I haven’t updated my Firefox for a long time. I’m still using Ver. 19 on this older Winders box and I’m not terribly happy even with that.
I also often use a much older Linux machine with a very much older Firefox install (sorry, can’t see what version right now, but it’s way old), which I like better.
Which OS and version of firefox are you using? I just tried like 3 versions from 20something ot 31 and none of them had this behavior, before or after a reset (this is on Windows 8).
What the OP describes sounds similar to Chrome’s hidden-menu extra click browsing philosophy, and it seems that Chrome is setting the standard, with all other browsers following in lock step. Firefox installed my browser with the menu bar hidden, with the expectation that the user intuits how to open it by clicking on a certain blank space.
I have some kind of bug that keeps asking me to update Firefox through a mirror site-- a mirror site which Bullgard, my anrtivirus software tells me is bad, and I should block it. Mozilla’s own site says I have the most recent version of Firefox.
Is it possible you updated through a mirror site and have some kind of corrupt version of Firefox?
Here is a screenshot of what the bookmarks menu does – notice that “unsorted bookmarks” does not have the triangle for a pull-down-menu. If I click it, it does nothing.
I followed the instructions to reset. It’s still doing the same thing. Hella weird; I just assumed this was another examples of developers fixing something that wasn’t broke.
Have you clicked on the Bookmarks Clipboard? In the newer versions of FF, that top menu bar is redundant. On the next line, there’s a star for one-click bookmarking, and the clipboard is directly next to it, between the star and the back button. Click the clipboard button, and your bookmarks drop down from that.
The “hamburger” button all the way on the right, contains the same stuff as the menu bar at the top. It’s put there so the extra bar can be disabled/disappeared and frees up some space on your browser/monitor. I deleted that menu bar many versions ago and my tabs are flush with the top.
Yeah, I haven’t been using firefox lately - I’ve become acclimated to chrome. But I just let firefox update itself several revisions (to 33.0.2 on Win 7), and it hasn’t messed up my bookmark list (which is very large btw, and organized into a folder heirarchy). I get a list of my top-level bookmarks, and folders, just above “unsorted bookmarks”, which I have none of.
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[li]Click on the 3-line “hamburger” icon all the way to the right of the address bar.[/li][li]Click “customize” at the bottom of the menu that comes up.[/li][li]Click “Show/Hide Toolbars” at the bottom of the page that comes up. Then un-check “Menu Bar”.[/li][li]Then, near the top of that page, find the “Bookmarks” icon (it’s a star and underneath it says “Bookmarks”) and drag it up to the toolbar next to the “Home” button/icon.[/li][li]Click “Exit Customize” which is a big green button at the bottom right of the page.[/li][/ul]
Now, click on the new bookmark list icon in your top toolbar, to the right of the star. Does that work how you want?
Firefox 33.0.2 on Vista. I was having the same problem. Inspired by this thread I tried a few things and I think I know what I did to fix it. It doesn’t matter whether your’re showing the menu bar or not. Do as the quoted instructions say, but click the large “Restore Defaults” button at the bottom to the right of “Show / Hide Toolbars”. I also moved a couple of items between the left and right frames but I think the “Restore Defaults” is what did it.
Can you post a screenshot?
