Firefox 3 introduced a new feature called unsorted bookmarks. If you look at the Firefox 3 location bar you see a white star in the right end of the bar. Clicking on that star turns the color to yellow and adds the page to the unsorted bookmarks in Firefox.
The problem with this process is that the unsorted bookmarks folder is deeply hidden in the Firefox bookmarks folder. Long time reader Transcontinental send me a nice link that makes it possible to add the Unsorted Bookmarks folder to a location that is easier accessible.
Some might say that you could simply move the Unsorted Bookmarks folder from the bookmarks manager to the Bookmarks Toolbar. That however will only move the existing bookmarks with it but it will not add new bookmarks that are added by clicking on the white star.
The way to add the Unsorted Bookmarks folder so that it is automatically updating the folder when new bookmarks are added to that folder is explained below.
To do that create a new bookmark in the location that you want to have the Unsorted Bookmarks folder in. Give it the name you want and add the line “place:folder=UNFILED_BOOKMARKS” (without the “”) in the location field.
Clicking on that folder will always display all Unsorted Bookmarks from then on and update automatically whenever a new bookmarks is added.
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A thousand times, thank you. It cures a serious beef I had with the unsorted bookmark handling.
Pretty much an essential tweak.
You do know Unsorted Bookmarks is one of the top three folders in the All Bookmarks section in the Library (New Organize Bookmarks)window? I don’t think its that hard to get to. If you double-click on the white star to bookmark a page a little dialog shows up where you can specify a folder the bookmark goes in.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7269
The described technique doesn’t work on Macintosh Version of Firefox 3.0.x, but you can do the following. Under “Bookmarks”, click on “Organize Bookmarks”. Click on the “Bookmarks Folder” in the left side panel, and then click the “gear wheel” and select “New Folder”. Give it a name like “Unsorted Bookmarks”. It should appear near the bottom. Move it by click-drag to just above the “Unsorted Morkmarks” icon. Then create another folder. I called it “Sorted Bookmarks”. Then click on “Bookmark Folder” again and select a range of unsorted bookmarks by clicking on one, and then shift-clicking again at the bottom of the range. This selects the range. Then choose “Move” to move them into your new Unsorted Bookmarks folder. Repeat this for as many of your individual Bookmark Folder entries as you like. Finally, select your Unsorted Bookmarks folder and the entire contents should be visible. Click the top line, and shift-click the bottom line to select them all, and choose SORT from the “script” selector and sort them A>Z (or Z>A). Then select all of them again and MOVE them to your Sorted Bookmarks folder. This gives you all your unsorted bookmarks in a single folder ordered as you like (I did A>Z). As new unsorted bookmarks accumulate in your Bookmarks Folder, you can MOVE them into Unsorted Bookmarks, and move all the Sorted Bookmarks there too. Then SORT them and move the entire collection back to Sorted Bookmarks.