JLSchweitzer wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 2:58am:
You have two Firefox profiles, though.  You create, rename and destroy profiles either by launching Firefox from the command line into the Profile Manager, as described in this link: http://mzl.la/LL5Dxl.

JLSchweitzer wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 2:58am:
Reinstalling a Mac app hardly ever solves a problem, because the problem is almost always in your data, and in this case it's in Firefox' data.

JLSchweitzer wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 2:58am:
Indeed, because that is the profile name.

JLSchweitzer wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2013 at 2:58am:

• Read all these instructions and understand what you're going to do.

• Launch BookMacster, and open your .bkmslf document.

• Click the tab Settings ▸ Clients.

• Select and delete the weird Firefox client.

• In case something goes wrong, copy that whole ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox folder to your Desktop.

• Run the Profile Manager as described in that article I linked to.

• Verify that the weird profile name is the one that is selected.  This is the profile that is currently in use when you launch Firefox.

• Select the other profile and delete it.

• Rename the weird profile to "default".

• Start Firefox and verify that everything, bookmarks in particular, looks OK.

• Quit Firefox.

• Activate BookMacster.

• Add a new Client.  Now there should be just one plain old Firefox.

• Assuming that your bookmarks in BookMacster are all current, Export from BookMacster to Firefox.  This shouldn't change any bookmarks, but is necessary for the new Client to associate with the identifiers of these bookmarks.  It may tell you that it's going to delete X hundred bookmarks and add X hundred new bookmarks.  That's OK because the X hundred being deleted are the same as the X hundred being added.

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For other users, it would be nice to know how you and Meciless got these weird profiles.  BookMactster will create an empty bookmarks file (places.sqlite) for an existing Firefox profile if none exists, but creating a whole profile would be beyond our pay grade.  The 13-digit number beginning with 13 is probably the number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch of January 1, 1970.  That's probably when it was created; that is, the time of the crime.  Yours looks like a few weeks ago, Merciless' is earlier.

I too am sorta having the same problem. About a month or two ago, I had two Firefox "entries" or clients on the same computer even though I only had one version of Firefox.

I re-installed Bookmacster and never followed up to see if the one of the entries disappeared. Tonight, I started looking at BM again and discovered that I had a Firefox entry like MercilessFr, only a different number "suffix."

I think I've found the problem and I've included a screenshot showing the name of my Firefox profile and the BM client. As you can see, they are the same.

S-o-o-o, is there a way to eliminated the "Firefox default xxxxxxxx" so that I guess Firefox and BM will simply say Firefox?

Hello, Merciless.

Something very weird is going on there with that funky Firefox default 135957…….  It looks like maybe the plain Firefox is the profile that is not working, and the funky one is the one that is working.

Try this…

• Activate BookMacster and your Bookmarkshelf document
• Click the tab: Settings ▸ Clients.
• Click the popup menu that is now set to Firefox.

How many Firefox choices do you have in the popup?  Are they the same two shown in Export to one Client?  If there is only one, click it.  If there is more than one, click a different one then one it was originally set to.

• Click in the menu: Bookmarkshelf ▸ Export, and see if it exports to Firefox as expected.

Let us know how it works.  We may need to dig into your Firefox profiles.  Do you ever remember configuring an additonal profile in Firefox?