one of my bookmarks has hundreds of repeats; how to delete them ?
there were hundreds of bookmarks for duckduckgo, but have successfully deleted them. Still have hundreds of bookmarks of another site that I can't delete, one by one or wholly. http://lawfulvlegal.com/ you can scroll for 20 seconds and they are still there. Don't know how this started....have used the Microsoft malicious software removal tool but nothing came up.
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That's just painful.
Give this a try, I think this will solve your problem. Bookmarks Duplicate Remover
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That's just painful.
Give this a try, I think this will solve your problem. Bookmarks Duplicate Remover
Clicked them all one by one and they were gone ! Thanks
Sajjad Bin Samad said
That's just painful. Give this a try, I think this will solve your problem. Bookmarks Duplicate Remover
I've used the above addon 3-4x & the bookmarks still return, both randomly on bookmarks drop-down menu & within the many folders I have. I have too many bookmarks to write down & reenter. There's got to be an effective permanent solution out there somewhere!
Sorry to hear that. I think that's because maybe you have had created the same bookmarks many times and synced them with firefox account.
First, disable "bookmarks sync"Goto: Options > Firefox Account then try the addon.
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Try what extension? I don't understand the concept of creating the same bookmarks many times & syncing them with the Firefox account. I don't know how or why I'd do that! How do you sync bookmarks you've created in Firefox to a Firefox account?
Another problem I forgot to mention above is that as of yesterday all these duplicates appared in my iphone 6s Safari browser as well. That has never happened before & it will take forever to delete each one. I had not done anything about deleting laptop bookmarks & don't understand how they were synced to my phone! The previous day had deleted all but favourite bookmarks from my phone as I had planned to import all of the folders from my laptop once I had the dupe problem fixed.
For more info about sync read these article
I installed Bookmarks Organizer & checked for duplicates; 2147 with 247 errors. Big deal...there's no menu on what to do next except go through pages & pages of bookmarks & manually delete the duplicates. I went through using the addon Bookmark Dupes 3-4x & got nowhere. I'm so done with this s..t & not getting a solution from anyone/where I look for assistance!!!!
Note that Firefox keeps some rotating backups in the bookmarkbackups folder. The name of an automatically created JSON bookmarks backup in the bookmarkbackups folder includes a total item count (folders and separators included) and an hash value to prevent saving the same backup more than once. You also see this count in the Restore menu drop-down list.
- bookmarks-YYYY-MM-DD_<item count>_<hash>.jsonlz4.
So you can check for unusual changes in the items count.
Such issues can also be a problem with the places.sqlite database.
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database (bookmarks and history) in the Firefox profile folder.
- use "Verify Integrity" button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page
in case errors are reported close and restart Firefox and retry
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