Oct 2024 - Bookmarks now super-flawed - no way to bookmark to a specific folder (except edit)

[Dr_Mike]

(I'm really feeling like it is impossible to report a bug)

131.0 (64-bit) - Mac
I have many open tabs (always). 
As of the latest update, when I bookmark any tab I want to save, it automatically assigns the bookmark to whatever bookmark was last made. So if it's a different topic/folder I want to save to, I need to open the bookmark, then "edit", THEN save to the proper bookmark destination. No longer is there an option to just bookmark to - one click.

Example:  If I bookmark "music", "work", and "sports", say...
I visit a page and bookmark it "music".
Next I go to a work-related page, and bookmark it. It goes to the "music" folder without asking.
To put it in the correct folder I need to EDIT the bookmark and save to "work". 3 steps now!
If I then go to a sports page, and want to bookmark it to sports. Click Bookmark Current Page, and it saves in "work".

Lastly, I just replicated in real-time while typing this, tried to bookmark THIS page.
I clicked "Bookmark" - clicked option "Bookmark this Page", and the window closed. It was bookmarked to the
the last place I'd bookmarked, no option as to where to save/bookmark. Now (realtime) when I click on Bookmarks I no longer have an option except to manage bookmarks or "Edit this Bookmark". If I click that it shows where it had saved the initial bookmark: the same place I saved something entirely unrelated.

Epic fail. May force me back to Chrome and its beautiful tab grouping.
For me the most basic thing a browser should do is easy use of tabs and bookmarks. This version broke my ability to add bookmarks where I want to add them.

[ThePillenwerfer]

I'm on the same version of Firefox as you are, albeit on Linux, and can save Bookmarks where I like.

[Dr_Mike]

Thanks for that.

OK then, a bit more specific... As I've been replicating and testing across computers...

That is exactly what I am NOT getting, that drop-down list of locations to which you direct the bookmark.

With this computer, still doing this 100% of the time, after rebooting, cache clearing, etc... when I click on "Bookmark Current Tab" (to initially bookmark a page) that window does not open at all, and the bookmarks menu I clicked on tp "Bookmark Current Tab" closes. To see what happened, I click on "bookmarks" to be able to "Edit this Bookmark" and the "Edit Bookmark" window then opens, so I can see that it automatically added the bookmark to the last place I added a bookmark to, and I can change it. But it's cumbersome, and as a scientist who looks at data, fact is, I've been using Firefox "since Netscape" (well, Mozilla) and never, ever had this happen at all, much less persistently.

FWIW, this issue seems specific to this rMBP v.12.7.6 Monterey, and dates exactly to the time I followed the prompt to update Firefox, last week. I have 2 other computers in use, both desktops, and they're both fine.
My older (still 32-bit) OS machine also updated Firefox, but works seemlessly.

131.0 (64 bit) version with the last Monterey OS - is what I'm on now, with this very annoying issue.

[ThePillenwerfer · Accepted solution]

I think I may have found it.

Type about:config into the search/URL bar.

The first thing you'll see is a warning which you have to acknowledge. At the top of the next screen is a search box.  Type of paste browser.bookmarks.editDialog.showForNewBookmarks into it. That will then show up below and if it says false next to it double-click the word false and it will change to true.

It was set to true on mine but changing it to false made my computer do the same as yours.

[Dr_Mike]

🙏
Briliiant! (And quick, too... ) So this thing works! Thanks much, I appreciate and admire the detective work as well as a happy resolution to something. (Awaiting a hurricane and election, otherwise!) :))

[Standard8]

The "browser.bookmarks.editDialog.showForNewBookmarks" preference is equivalent to the "Show editor when saving" checkbox that is on the pop-up dialog.