Firefox just appends a new bookmark at the end of the folder that you saved the bookmark into unless you drag and drop the new bookmark into the location. This makes it rather difficulty to search through your existing bookmarks because you have to remember when you added the bookmark as well if you have a lot of bookmarks saved.
There is however a way to sort the bookmarks in Firefox alphanumerically with the choice to sort them ascending or natural. Natural would mean that the bookmarks would be sorted in their natural order while ascending would revert them.
We also have to differentiate between the Bookmarks Manager, the sidebar and the bookmarks menu. Sorting the bookmarks in the Bookmarks Manager has no effect on the display of the bookmarks in the sidebar and the bookmarks menu.
To simply sort the bookmarks in the sidebar and menu you right-click a bookmark and select sort by name. This sorts those bookmarks alphanumerically. Please note that all other folders remain unsorted unless you perform the operation there as well.
If you prefer to have an ascending list of bookmarks instead on the sidebar you have to change that option in the configuration. (I’m not sure why this option is not working on the bookmarks menu as well) Open about:config in the address bar and filter for the string “browser.bookmarks.sort.direction”. The string has a default value of descending which simply means that they are added at the end of the list. Natural would mean a natural order while ascending would be the reverse.
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Hey thanks for that tip.
My firefox bookmarks list is so crowded that I switched to google bookmarks.
Firefox 3′s bookmarks are a total disaster! They do not sort properly and the method to use for sorting is totally counter-intuitive. They need to redesign the whole bookmark organizer, as it is now it sucks.
I agree with Me (above). Firefox’s bookmarks are a mess. I NEED to have them simple to sort by just clicking Bookmarks in the menu bar, and doing a right-click and sort. The way you now have to manually drag them to where you want them in Bookmarks menu, is just plain stupid.
Found this out myself- open bookmarks, right click on organise bookmarks, sort by name is there- click it- job done!
Why Mozilla has not made this sort recursive is beyond me. Who wants to do this for a ton of folders?
Ahh, look at this, exactly what I needed. Full customization of bookmark sorting: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Tips_:_Sorting_Bookmarks_Alphabetically#Using_an_extension_to_sort_bookmarks_recursively