Firefox Bookmarks won't appear

ok, so I have a bunch of folders and subfolders for my many bookmarks. (I'm an activist, so I need a lot of info at my fingertips.) for some reason, recently some of my bookmark folders will not display the bookmarks in them when the folder is highlighted in the menu, making me unable to open them, unless I go through the "show all bookmarks" option then copy and paste. this is only some folders, and not others. I can't figure out what the difference is between the working and non working ones. some have several bookmarks in them, others have few or one.

any ideas?

hm, oddly enough, they dont appear when i use the bookmarks tab at the top of the screen, but they do when I use the bookmarks drop down button within the browser interface itself.

 

No. It must be due to one of the recent updates, because I've never had this issue before at all. But like I said, they do still open if you use the Bookmarks button withing the browser toolbars; you can add it by going to View>Toolbars>Customize.