1424897 - Can't easily restore icons in url bar in Quantum

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[[:AlanK]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171130143849

Steps to reproduce:

Deleted the star (bookmarked) icon and the pocket icons


Actual results:

The icons are gone and I see no practical way to restore them.   IIRC they used to go onto the top of the menu and could be restored. 
After much much digging I found them to be in an obscure setting in prefs.js (or about:config).   A setting that is not user friendly to edit with complex coding.  
browser.pageActions.persistedActions and the setting was at the end of this convoluted string:
{"version":1,"ids":["bookmark","bookmarkSeparator","copyURL","emailLink","sendToDevice","pocket","screenshots"],"idsInUrlbar":["bookmark"]}
How is someone to know that the idsInUrlbar should be "bookmark" surrounded by [] etc.    I only found it by making a new profile and doing a diff on the two prefs.js files and viewing the difference in that string.  I've got more talent than the average user.


Expected results:

There should be some menu item to allow a restore of selected icons that have been removed.

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

You can find and retrieve them in the "..." button's menu on urlbar.

Comment 2

[[:AlanK]]

Thanks.  A bit obscure but most definitely there. Thanks.