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Old November 23rd 17, 06:13 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Art Todesco wrote:

Is there a way to make xmarks not update that computer?


Disable or uninstall the Xmarks extension in the instances of Firefox
that you don't want synchronized to your Xmarks account.

Also disable sync, if enabled, in those same instances of Firefox.

While you have the bookmarks in the other instances of Firefox, use its
export/backup feature to save them outside of your Firefox profile to
somewhere else. You could recover the bookmarks in the problem instance
of Firefox by importing/restoring using the export/backup file, or by
restoring Firefox's profile folder from your regularly scheduled backups
(backups performed manually are rarely current for data recovery).

If you are fiercely determined not to use scheduled backups to ensure
you have fairly recent backups (which would include all data folders,
including Firefox's profile folders) then configure Firefox to
automatically save a copy of its bookmarks upon its exit. See:

Assuming you enabled display of the preview pane in Windows Explorer,
why can't you drag its left-side border to increase its width? Hover
the mouse cursor over the left vertical border of the preview pane until
the cursor turns into a doubled horizontal arrow then click and drag.
With Windows Explorer and with its preview pane expanded to occupy half
the screen, you can click on a .pdf file and read it in the preview pane
very easily without having to double-click the file to load it into a
PDF viewer program.

I haven't been on Windows XP for many years so I wasn't sure if its
Windows Explorer had a preview pane. So I searched online using:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22w...view+pane+size

and found as the 2nd article:

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/...view_pane.mspx

If you don't want to use the preview pane then increase the size of the
thumbnails. In the above Google search, the following was the 1st
article:

https://www.askvg.com/tip-enable-aut...e-at-shutdown/

Only 1 copy of this exported file is saved. There is no versioning as
with backups. The file is created when you exit Firefox. Upon the next
exit of Firefox, an existing file will get stepped on. So, for example,
if some or all of the bookmarks got deleted while in Firefox, exiting it
would result in saving a new .html file that would step on (overwrite)
the old .html file and you end up with a backup that has no bookmarks.
You would have to realize you had missing or no bookmarks when loading
Firefox, NOT exit Firefox, copy the .html file to elsewhere, and then
exit Firefox. Or, when you noticed some or all bookmarks were missing
in the current session of Firefox, do an import of the .html file BEFORE
you exiting Firefox. Since there is good chance that you may not notice
missing bookmarks until some later session in Firefox, auto-exporting to
the .html file is likely not to be of much value. You'd end up using
Firefox once, or more, and notice later some or all bookmarks are
missing but also find that that the exported .html file has already been
overwritten with the [partially] empty list of bookmarks. That's why
real backups are better and with them scheduled to prevent data loss
from users that obviously don't perform backups at regular intervals
that are fine granular (close together) to ensure reasonable data
recovery.

By the way, the Xmarks extension is NOT a WebExtension add-on so why are
you still using it in Firefox 57? It should have gotten disabled in
Firefox 57 along with warning you in previous versions that it was a
legacy extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...n/xmarks-sync/

See the "Not compatible with Firefox Quantum" with the red hazard
symbol? Uninstall ALL legacy extensions. In the beta versions, there
was an option to reenable legacy extensions but I don't know if it made
it into the released 57 version. Running legacy extensions in FF57 is
hazardous as you've discovered.
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