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As I said earlier, coming from a Windows background, IOS seems un-intuitive, awkward & damn frustrating. I guess those coming from the opposite direction feel much the same.
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New #12
I don't understand what's going on with your FF. I open FF on my iPhone, tap Bookmarks (in Your Library), tap Bookmarks Toolbar, tap Bookmarks, and my 8 folders of FF bookmarks (Tech Forums, Logins, Reference, Resources, etc.) from FF on my PC are right there, with all of their contents.
I'm wondering whether the solution for you might be to uninstall FF from your iPad (since you haven't managed to get it to sync correctly), then install a fresh copy and then start all over again as above in #7. You might be sure your FF bookmarks on your PC FF are in order and up to date before you do the syncing. After that, they should sync without any intervention from you.
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I won't try to post a screenshot from my iPhone, though I'm sure that's doable if you take the time to find out how, but here are the relevant Bookmarks layouts for my PC's Chrome amd FF browsers, and the one I get (I open FF on my iPhone, tap Bookmarks (in Your Library), tap Bookmarks Toolbar, tap Bookmarks) looks just the same.
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New #13
Well, in Firefox for iPad I open Bookmarks & it shows the following folders:
Bookmarks Menu (empty)
Bookmarks Toolbar (empty)
Unsorted Bookmarks (empty)
Mobile Bookmarks (empty)
Recent Bookmarks (contains many dozens of unsorted Bookmarks)
As shown above (Windows Firefox) I have numerous folders under the dropdown folder called 'Bookmarks Toolbar' each containing several Bookmarks. Then I have commonly used Bookmarks along the menu bar which I believe is called Bookmarks Menu.
However, when imported into iPad Firefox all Bookmarks end up unsorted in Recent Bookmarks as mentioned above.
I prefer some kind of logical arrangement which for me makes iPad Firefox unuseable.
I won't mention Safari as that's another mess.
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New #14
Okay, your iPad is clearly not syncing correctly with your FF on your PC. I just tried something new, and it's worth a try for you, too:
Open FF on PC. Click hamburger top right and scroll down to Settings. In Search Settings blank, type sync. Make sure it's ON. If not turn it on. Now scroll down a little further to find Connect another device. Click. Now it wants to show you a QR scan code. (If you don't know how to scan a QR code with your iPad, see 4 Ways to Scan a QR Code on an iPhone or iPad - wikiHow. Follow the instrs for setting the iPad to scan.) Open Firefox, then activate the scanner (upper right corner) and you're done. A message will show. Now use Settings in Firefox (hamburger, then Settings), and tap Sync Now. Be patient, and it should get this all right.
Without Apple software. Good luck. Don't give up. It's a worthwhile project. I wouldn't have stuck with it for so long if I hadn't thought it so.
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New #15
OK, done that & now in Bookmarks in FF-IOS the previously empty folder called Bookmarks Toolbar is now populated with 4 Bookmarks as it should be but the other bookmarks are still lurking in Recent Bookmarks & unsorted. I also notice that there's only a few showing up - by no means are they all there! Have run sync again on both platforms to no avail.
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Whoa! I ignore that. Following another sync on both platforms the Bookmarks Toolbar which contains the 4 appropriate bookmarks also has a sub-folder called...wait for it...Bookmarks Toolbar & that sub-folder has the rest of the Bookmarks all neatly arranged in their proper folders.
So Voila! What this Recent Bookmarks is about is a mystery because, far from being 'recent' there's some there I haven't created or used in months. I guess I could go through and delete them one at a time (purely for tidiness) but I fear that would be a wasted effort.
So we're kind of there.
Thank you so much for your time & assistance.
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Just as side note, this Recent Bookmarks foder holds 20 Bookmarks (there should be over a hundred). Anyhow, if I delete/remove one of them from the top of the list, within a minute or two another one appears at the bottom!
Rather odd (but then it is IOS).
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New #16
Give it time. Close and open Firefox several times over a period of a few hours, and each time, go to Settings, and you'll see the syncing spinner ... um, spinning.
I think I recall having to delete all of the bad old stuff in Bookmarks before all the correct good stuff got right. That might take a while. Depends on whether you think it's worth it. Now that you're getting, slowly but surely, the right folders and the right marks, and you know where to find them, maybe there's a bookmarks manager that will tidy the whole thing up for you. I dunno.
Glad you got it (or are in the process of getting it). Sorry I didn't know exactly where to point you at the beginning of all this.
Congrats. You now have Firefoxes talking to Firefoxes.
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