Changing to a previous version of Firefox will unlikely change anything, unless you are using bookmarks outside of Firefox. be sure that you are looking at what you think you are looking at. Mozilla moved the bookmarks bar up above the navigation bar. First thing to do would be to display all of the toolbars, see items #2 and #3 in the following: You can make Firefox 4.0.1 and '''Firefox 5.0''' look like Firefox 3.6.17, see numbered items 1-10 in the following topic *[http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox-problems.htm#fx4interface Fix Firefox 4.0 toolbar user interface, problems (Make Firefox 4.0 look like 3.6)] Check your bookmarks sidebar "Ctrl+B" to see if the bookmarks are actually in the "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder but not showing in the toolbar. If that is the case you have a corrupt localstore.rdf file. * Corrupt localstore.rdf - MozillaZine Knowledge Base<br>only downside is recustomizing toolbars View>toolbars>cutomize (take a picture of your toolbars first). <br>http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf If you have nothing in the "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder then restore your latest .jason file through Firefox. #"Ctrl+Shift+B" (Show All Bookmarks) #Import and backup (menu) #Restore (you should have at least 5 and probably 11 to choose from in FF 5), the restore should go very fast

This was very educational! Thanks a lot. I still don't have my old bookmarks back, but I now have a better handle on how to manipulate things. I'm going to keep exploring using your suggestions. Tnx, Bill