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np5
Making moves
Status: New idea

I'd like to be able to save bookmarks on Android in a default folder I select (in my case, the root of Bookmarks Toolbar), or at least the last folder I saved *on Android* itself.

I keep getting bookmarks "lost" in random folders, because I keep assuming any bookmarks I save on Android go to wherever I last saved on Android, and not "last saved on Desktop"... !

When I was using Chrome, that's how it used to work, so I never had to double check every time.

I bookmark stuff on Android when I want to check later when I am on the PC. But if bookmarks go to "random" places every time, I keep forgetting about them, and then I don't even know where I saved them, anymore.

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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Anthak
New member

Yup, this is very much needed. The current state is a nightmare if you want to keep mobile and desktop even slightly separate

GerryC
New member

Totally agree ๐Ÿ‘

That's how it used to be before. I was able to easily find my Android bookmarks in a folder called "Mobile Bookmarks", but now it's really frustrating.

Please listen to us the users ๐Ÿ™

Gerry

np5
Making moves

To clarify, I'm not looking to have all bookmarks saved in "Mobile Bookmarks".

I just want to be able to choose a permanent folder where all mobile bookmarks go, in some Setting or so.

Either that, or at least to save in the folder I chose for the last bookmark on this device/Android (and not synced from where I last saved on the PC).

BugFairy
New member

This has made bookmarking on Android extremely frustrating and borderline unusable. Combine this with the randomly ordered bookmarks issue and it literally is unusable.

np5
Making moves

A worse issue is that Sync (on Android) only works whenever it decides to. It can stay 4 days without syncing (and pressing "Sync now" does nothing), and then it finally works.

These issues make Firefox a pain to use, for someone who used to be on Chrome, which "just works well".

People actually make the effort to use Firefox, and I've also donated to Mozilla. But... these annoyances, that take so long to fix (I don't think I've heard anything from Mozilla devs, for any of these issues I raised), make people go back to Chrome, or find some other browser. ๐Ÿ˜•

MollyInanna
New member

Very much agree with this.  The seeming randomization of where bookmarks land mean that they can land for me in a folder I'm about to discard.  I have no idea where they land.  The lack of a constant place where I can count on them being is immensely frustrating.

Diaruemnus
New member

I'm also throwing my two cents here - this is incredibly annoying.

* Bookmarks I want to keep track of are now in random bookmark folders. I have hundreds of folders, and this is just impossible. I can't find anything, and I keep having to reorganize when I see completely unrelated bookmarks popping up everywhere.
* Bookmarks I wish to keep private are now popping up in places unexpectedly when I want to show someone a bookmark or page in person.
* Why is my desktop browser impacting where I store bookmarks on my phone? Because bookmark management is so poor in Firefox on Android, I just wanted my mobile bookmarks to go into a Mobile folder so I can sort them later on my desktop. Now? Good luck! I have no idea where my bookmarks are going!

This has gotten *incredibly* irritating. Whoever decided to do this needs their UI/UX degree revoked.

Diaruemnus
New member

I just had a long critique that the login system here lost when I tried to post and was redirected to create an account, so that just adds to my irritation.

Long story short, the mobile bookmarking experience has always been terrible, but now it's just worse. Bring back a default mobile bookmark folder so I can sort through them on my desktop later. Do not use my desktop to select a folder on my phone. It is rare that I send two bookmarks in a row to the same folder. Now my bookmarks that I've spent *decades* organizing are in complete disarray. This needs to change.