Firefox Sidebars - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C. - IEEE Consultants' Network of Long Island

January 11, 2022

Firefox Sidebars - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

It seems to have taken place some while ago because I am finding already on line commentary about this topic, but it just happened to happen to me here and I am very disconcerted. The browser Mozilla Firefox appears to have been purged of its screen display sidebars.

For illustration, here's the issue with the Bookmarks Sidebar:

The lower screen picture shown here is from the updated Firefox on my laptop in which I no longer have access to most of the bookmarks I once had. It had been a long list. Using the new bookmark tools, I seem to have access to only a small fraction of those entries via the new "Most Visited" and the new "Other Bookmarks". The new "Bookmarks Toolbar" is nowhere near to being any kind of adequate sidebar replacement.

Much of my complete set of bookmarks seems to have vanished.

Additionally troublesome is that I had very carefully arranged my bookmarks in alphabetical order and now their order of presentation, those bookmarks I can still find, is helter-skelter-scrambled. I cannot rearrange those in the "Most Visited" list and while those in the "Other Bookmarks" list are movable, I think that some seem to have been re-titled against my preferences.

The upper screen picture shown here is from my desktop PC which is running 32-bit Windows Vista which thankfully will not accept an 'updated' browser and therefore has not lost its bookmarks content nor its site access capability.

In a similar vein, the History Sidebar is gone too. That one is less of a loss, but it too ain't there no more.

Has someone lost their mind??

Convenient site access via the Bookmarks Sidebar was the primary reason I preferred the Firefox browser over Chrome or Edge or whatever else. Sidebar removal is now a huge headache as I try to find some other way of efficiently navigating the internet.

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January 11, 2022