Customize Xmarks and Fast Dial collaboration for Firefox

What are we talking about.
Xmarks - synchronization, backup bookmarks
Fast Dial - visual bookmarks (quick access window)

Problem. By themselves, Xmarks and Fast Dial work like a clock. The problem will arise if you want to add some bookmarks to the Fast Dial at home, and others at work - Xmarks shamelessly synchronizes your bookmarks to the same view.

The first thing that comes to mind: Xmarks supports profiles! Go to the Xmarks settings (right-click on the icon in the status bar -> “My Xmarks”), log in on the server, click on Sync Profiles, create two profiles (the “Add” button), for example, Home and Work. If you have previously synchronized bookmarks, then the list of bookmarks in the right window already has a Fast Dial folder, it is ticked in both profiles, which means that you will have the same set of bookmarks both at home and at work. Uncheck that is logical - do not sync this folder and in two browsers we will have our own set of bookmarks. It was not there! For Xmarks, the absence of a tick in the profile means that the user should not have this folder, and the input of his hard work takes down the folder in both browsers. And given the fact that the default synchronization takes place when the browser is closed, and when opened, surprised, Fast Dial does not find its folder and creates it again, it seems that after restarting the browser it is simply cleared.
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Way out. Having tried various methods, I came to the main conclusion - before work you need to clean the surface with a file, i.e. bring both browsers to a certain initial state. Such preparation is caused by the peculiar logic of Xmarks, the impossibility of explicitly specifying the root folder for the Fast Dial and for elementary data integrity.

1. First of all, on the Xmarks server, delete the Fast Dial folder (s)
2. We create a temporary folder in the bookmarks, where we copy the bookmarks from the Fast Dial folder - in case Xmarks has not worked with it yet;
3. Rename the folder “Fast Dial”, for example “Fast Dail Home”;
4. We copy into it bookmarks from a temporary folder (a temporary folder will be better left until everything will work for sure - you never know what);
5. Go to Xmarks and click the button "Sync", it is her, not "Download" or "Send";
6. We go to the Xmarks server in the profile settings, click on the “Work” profile and uncheck the “Fast Dial Home” folder;
7. We do the same thing on the second machine, changing the Home to Work and vice versa, respectively;

After these operations, you can re-enable synchronization, change collections of bookmarks separately for each machine, change settings, etc.