Want to return favorites bar to my chosen configuration


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I've been updated to Maxthon 5. Mostly it has been good for me, but here is a problem I am having. Often my favorites bar will, as shown in the screenshot, display three folders ("Default folder", "Bookmarks", and "Favorites--2018-03-10...") instead of showing the bookmarks and bookmarklets I have chosen to put on my favorites bar. Sometimes for reasons unknown to me it will switch back to the display I configured for the favorites bar, but later it will switch back again. Can you tell me how I can switch away from the unwanted three folder-display to my chosen configuration for the favorites bar?

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1. make sure you're not somehow switching between accounts or guest mode. There's no other reason i can think of it will change randomly.

2. the folder/s that show on the favourites bar is set by right clicking on an empty area of the favourites bar and selecting the "Set Favourites bar display folder" option.

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1. make sure you're not somehow switching between accounts or guest mode

I only have one account, and I don't know anything about guest mode.

Could I ask you to explain another item in the favorites bar context menu--"Update favicons"?

Is "Import user data" for importing bookmarks from other browsers?

 

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3 hours ago, conceptualclarity said:

I only have one account, and I don't know anything about guest mode.

Well then i'm not sure how they could disappear randomly. If you could take a screenshot of when it does that it might help.

3 hours ago, conceptualclarity said:

Could I ask you to explain another item in the favorites bar context menu--"Update favicons"?

Updates the little icons at the left of the favourite name in the fav menu or favbar.

3 hours ago, conceptualclarity said:

Is "Import user data" for importing bookmarks from other browsers?

Yes. Follow the prompts if that's what you want to do.

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Thank you very much, 7twenty. Why is the Maxthon forum website so difficult? Aside from actually dead websites, I have far more trouble getting the Maxthon to load and be formatted for me than any other website. I have to go to SeaMonkey rather than Maxthon or Firefox to make a thread on the Maxthon forum. When I want to make a post on a thread, I usually don't get a normal text box and have to upload a text file. This time was the rare exception.

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3 hours ago, conceptualclarity said:

I have far more trouble getting the Maxthon to load and be formatted for me than any other website.

Make sure you're using Ultra mode, Menu > Switch Core.

There should be a lightening bolt shown in the address bar. Menu > Skins > Toolbar > Switch Core button should be checked.

Make sure you haven't changed the useragent. Menu > Settings > Advanced. The Customise User agent string option should be unchecked.

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