I got some random selection of Bookmarks suddenly lost from Firefox Bookmark Folders, some Folders entirely cleared… I’m I the only one?!

  • 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pubOP
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    5 months ago

    This issue was first recognized for me about 2-3 firefox versions ago

    It’s weird, first time something like this happened to me, I’m on Fedora ( FF v124.0.1 ) and I don’t think it has anything to do with how you close windows, I was organizing my bookmarks I checked Lemmy for a second, went back at it again, to see that my work gone… I didn’t touch anything…

    The only thing that I think caused it is FF Sync, because it keeps running in the background… But you don’t use it, which is why I said it’s weird…

    One instance has about 50~ bookmarks with 3 folders no subfolders, one instance has about 500 with many subfolders… I assume only recently added bookmarks have disappeared, but I have no way to verify and my memory wasn’t perfect

    My bookmarks were there for more than a year, they didn’t vanish until I started moving them around, so I guess there’s a bug that affects large folders

    Tab Stash Bookmarks aren’t affected…

    I use privacy badger, privacy possum, adguard with most filters enabled, decentraleyes, and user agent switcher.

    Unrelated but why all these ? you can reap better results ( reduced attack surface, better fingerprinting protection ) with different extensions,

    Ublock and enable : Adguard URL tracking protection

    Firefox Containers : Isolates websites/activies from each other

    Cookies ( Privacy Badger ) : FF has Total Cookie Protection since v86, you just need to set the protection level to Strict mode

    Fingerprinting ( Privacy Possum, UAS ), redundant with RF ( resist fingerprinting ) feature, go to about config, and search for privacy.resist fingerprinting > enable it

    decentraleyes : redundant with Total Cookie Protection

    The only two you need really, is Unlock and Canvas Blocker ( if you’re not going to use Arkenfox ), FF containers

    Edit : sorry, three…lol

    • mlemiputty@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      AdGuard/uBlock aren’t very different from each other. I’ve used AdGuard for a long long time, and the browser plugin isn’t their only tool I’m familiar with.

      If I need better isolation between active sessions, I either end my current session or hop in a VM. Firefox containers are far from perfect and not sure why it was mentioned.

      Last time I did my tests, Strict + PP + PB altogether had my preferred outcome on modified/blocked data. Resist fingerprinting did not touch everything I wanted either.

      I use UAS to access sites made for other platforms, not to avoid tracking

      Decentraleyes: CDN’s are not that simple. I have heard there is a better addon for this now though

      I add/delete/modify multiple bookmarks a day, and noticed when i use menu-quit it hasn’t happened since. Many applications used to clean up differently this way, so I’m not sure. But I do know memory management on different platforms is becoming more and more of a nightmare to track/utilize changes