# How do I make Mozilla Firefox stop doing this annoying thing with the bookmarks menu?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 1, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-mozilla-firefox-stop-doing-this-annoying-thing-with-the-bookmarks-menu/498354 "2009-06-01T14:13:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-mozilla-firefox-stop-doing-this-annoying-thing-with-the-bookmarks-menu/498354/1 "2009-06-01T14:13:52Z")

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All of a sudden, sometime during the past couple of weeks, Mozilla Firefox has decided to change how the menus work. Now, every time I click on the “Bookmarks” menu in order to, you know, access the bookmarks _in the menu_, it first gives me the “Bookmark this page” dialogue box instead of showing me the menu. I have to hit “cancel” and then go to the bookmarks menu a second time to actually see the menu. It does this every time. Why is it doing this and how can I make it stop and restore the original operation of the bookmarks menu?

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**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-mozilla-firefox-stop-doing-this-annoying-thing-with-the-bookmarks-menu/498354/2 "2009-06-01T16:18:00Z")

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Mine doesn’t do that.

Make sure you’re not moving your mouse and actually clicking on Bookmark this page, which is the first option when you click on Bookmarks. All it takes is a slight enough movement to move the cursor to the wrong option.

When I was in Technical Support, that type of issue would happen a lot.

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**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-mozilla-firefox-stop-doing-this-annoying-thing-with-the-bookmarks-menu/498354/3 "2009-06-01T16:19:04Z")

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See if this addresses your problem: [Bug #269929 “Clicking File or Bookmarks causes unexpected result...” : Bugs : Mozilla Firefox](https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/269929)

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**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-make-mozilla-firefox-stop-doing-this-annoying-thing-with-the-bookmarks-menu/498354/4 "2009-06-01T21:29:32Z")

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My Firefox did exactly the same thing! I followed **arseNal’s** link. I wasn’t able to figure out exactly what the solution was, but it appears that just clicking onto that and deleting all the extra bookmarks that accumulated appears to have solved the problem. YMMV, of course.