Are your live bookmarks in the bookmark toolbar? Can you please show a screenshot of what part should stay open?

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Thanks for your reply and for taking an interest. I've attached the screenshot in PNG format--hope that's okay. I use bookmarks only in the Sidebar, never in the toolbar (I just have way too many!) The BBC News live bookmark that is shown opened in that screenshot always comes back closed after I close Firefox and reopen it. (This is true for ALL other live bookmarks as well. Formerly, in earlier versions of Firefox, the open ones always remained open, and the closed ones closed, which is the correct behavior, imho.)

That is probably because live feeds need to be reloaded from the server, so there is initially no content available as live feeds are loaded on demand (you need to do this manually) and thus the folder is collapsed. This was a change made quite some time ago AFAICR.

You may have had an extension is that was different for you.

I don't think so. I did not add or disable any add-ons and all I did was update to version 34. The live bookmark always loaded and opened with the latest content and would periodically refresh on its own. I wonder if it's a Config setting that changed or got deleted...?

Bug 613588 - (livemarksIO) Replace livemarks with asynchronous load-on-demand livemarks