Hi, personally, I have no use for Unsorted Bookmarks either, but note that if you click on the star once, the bookmark will automatically go into Unsorted Bookmarks, however if you wish the bookmark to go to a different destination, you should click on the star twice, then in the dialog box, use the upper, downward pointing arrow on the far right, to select a destination > Done.

The following may also be of use - Bookmarks in Firefox.

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My solution for the combined bookmarks star/menu button is to take it off the toolbar and just not use it! Can't miss a feature that was removed [or changed] if "you don't have to look at it" all the time when you use Firefox.

When I want to save a new bookmark I use { Ctrl + D } rather than a toolbar button that takes up space I can use for something else - and now double the toolbar area since the "double button" was added.

As far as accessing my saved Bookmarks, I use two different displays and avoid that silly toolbar button drop-down that I have hidden in the palette. { Alt } then select Bookmarks (on the "hidden" Menu Bar which is now shown) still shows the full list with the Unsorted folder at the bottom. And the Bookmarks Sidebar view { Ctrl + B } still shows that folder, too.

"Drag'n'drop" the favicon from a tab into either "view" to save a new bookmark, just like can be done with the Bookmarks Toolbar.

I have been unhappy with the bookmarks "system" since Firefox 3, in 2008; mainly that silly Unsorted folder that can't be deleted. But it never really affected my use of Firefox. I never liked the way Internet Explorer favorites worked either, so in the 20th century I got in the habit of using the 'Favorites' Sidebar in IE. When I started using Firefox in 2002 I continued using the Sidebar to access my bookmarks. With the addition of a feature of "drag'n'drop" to save a bookmark years ago, I can even save a bookmark to the Bookmarks Sidebar in the exact folder I want - the folder doesn't even have to be open.

I hear you. However, we should not have to have PhD in Firefox for bookmarks. It's a wasted effort and Bookmarks need to be streamlined. We don;t need "most visited" and all of the other bloat. There should be just one place where all bookmarks drop into, like it use to be, unless you choose to sort them--which means the Bookmark This Page dialog should open as default.

I mean there is an addons to work around this problem. Really? So, Firefox developers create options that we have to take off?

Due to bookmark confabulation, what I do is open Libre Office Write and copy paste my bookmarks into that. Then I just use that document when I need a bookmark.

It's pretty insane who complicated the "easy" browser is getting. My friend, a veteran of FF since ver 1 and earlier, as I am, just went to Chrome because he said it was easier to work with.

Firefox is just too bloated.

Don't need a PhD, just learn the tricks over time from other Firefox users (here and at the mozillaZine fora) - preferably when the changes happen, rather than trying to catch up on all the changes that have been made to Firefox years later.

"Bookmark This Page" has been poor since Firefox 3.0 came out. I used an add-on to "fix it" until an update years ago broke that extension. Then I said f...-it and learned how to save new bookmarks "easier" - drag'n'drop 'em.

Most Visited, Recently Bookmarked and Recent Tags can be deleted with no ill effects, unlike Unsorted Bookmarks which can't be. Firefox and Sync won't add those 3 folders back - they both know you don't want those folders and won't "push the issue".

As far as a simple display of bookmarks, the pref - browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML - in about:config can be toggled on, so that Firefox will create a bookmarks.html file upon being closed. That bookmarks.html file can be viewed in Firefox, like a web page. Or you could view / edit that file in Libre Office. I used to keep a bookmarks.html file, that I added some css to "doll it up" a bit, and uploaded it to my personal web space at Comcast so I could view my bookmarks on the internet from any computer that I was using.

Chrome I never spent much time with, after realizing early-on that it was a bear to customize. And once I "caught on" to Chrome having an updater process running on startup and all the time, I got wise and got rid of it even as a "backup" browser. It's one thing to use Google search and "them" being able to see all my searches, but it's a whole "nuther thing" for Google to know when my PC is running or I'm online.