Deleting bookmarks in Firefox ?

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John Fitzsimons

I am using Firefox 1.0 on a '98SE system. I do a search for some web
page and get three results. I delete one of them by pressing the
delete icon or right click delete. The bookmark remains.

Is anyone else seeing this ? Is there any way to get "delete" to
actually work please ?

Regards, John.
 
John said:
I am using Firefox 1.0 on a '98SE system. I do a search for some web
page and get three results. I delete one of them by pressing the
delete icon or right click delete. The bookmark remains.

Is anyone else seeing this ? Is there any way to get "delete" to
actually work please ?

Regards, John.
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Firefox has gone through several security updates and bug fixes. Perhaps
you should try installing Firefox 1.0.5.
 
I am using Firefox 1.0 on a '98SE system. I do a search for some web
Firefox has gone through several security updates and bug fixes. Perhaps
you should try installing Firefox 1.0.5.
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All the versions of Firefox for Windows (including 1.0.5) have shown
this behaviour. You can't delete or change Properties on the results of
a search. You can if you navigate to the bookmark without using search.
I haven't investigated seriously, but haven't seen any obvious way of
identifying the folder that a bookmark shown in the search display is
in. I haven't tested non-Windows versions.

HTH,
 
I wrote:

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All the versions of Firefox for Windows (including 1.0.5) have shown
this behaviour. You can't delete or change Properties on the results of
a search.
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But you can delete from a 1.0.6 search. Still can't change properties,
though.

HTH,
 
All the versions of Firefox for Windows (including 1.0.5) have shown
this behaviour. You can't delete or change Properties on the results of
a search. You can if you navigate to the bookmark without using search.
I haven't investigated seriously, but haven't seen any obvious way of
identifying the folder that a bookmark shown in the search display is
in. I haven't tested non-Windows versions.
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That has been my experience too during the two years that I used
Mozilla/FF. It's why I moved from Firefox to Opera v8.0
freeware/bannerware at www.opera.com
 
I wrote:

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But you can delete from a 1.0.6 search. Still can't change properties,
though.
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Does the 1.0.6 search indicate which folders the various "found" links
are located in?
 
Vic said:
Does the 1.0.6 search indicate which folders the various "found" links
are located in?
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I don't have the time to investigate yet; please post if you find an
answer.

At a quick glance everything in the search list is the same as before,
except that "Delete" is not greyed out.

Best wishes,
 
John said:
Thanks, but clicking "delete" doesn't work for me in 1.0.6.

Clicking the delete icon in the Bookmarks Manager doesn't work for
searches either. :-(
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Hmm. That's strange John. On my system, Firefox 1.0.6 is working
perfectly. In fact, all versions since I installed it have worked well.
Maybe if you do this (kinda tedious though):

1. Exit Firefox.
2. Delete your "user.js" file and create a new blank one.
3. Restart Firefox.
4. Type in "about:config" in the location field and hit enter.
5. On each preference, right click and select "Reset"

It may be easier to:
1. back up your existing user profile somewhere (maybe even zip it
temporarily, since Firefox installation might detect and use it)
2. then uninstall Firefox - deleting the original profile.
3. Next, without running Firefox, move the new *totally default
settings* prefs.js to a backup location and
4. copy the files from your backed up user profile into the new one.
5. Finally, overwrite the old "prefs.js" file you just restored with the
new *totally default settings* prefs.js you moved to another location.

Sounds hard, but it would actually be much easier than the first way.

John, I haven't ever had to do this but I bet it would correct your
problems.
 
Hmm. That's strange John. On my system, Firefox 1.0.6 is working
perfectly.
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So you can delete bookmarks after doing a "search" ? You obviously
have a different 1.0.6 than I have.

After also asking in the Firefox newsgroup I got ;
This is a known bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255255
which has finally been fixed for FF 1.1.
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Regards, John.
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John said:
John Corliss wrote:
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So you can delete bookmarks after doing a "search" ? You obviously
have a different 1.0.6 than I have.
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Whoops. Sorry John. I can't
After also asking in the Firefox newsgroup I got ;
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I did notice that if I cleared the search field, I was then able to
delete the bookmark. Of course, this doesn't help at all....
 
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