The Mozilla development team has introduced several new dynamic bookmark folders in Firefox 3 including the recently bookmarked, unsorted bookmarks or recent tags folders. All but the unsorted bookmarks folder are displayed in the default Firefox bookmarks menu. The unsorted bookmarks folder on the other hand is only visible in the Firefox bookmarks manager. It is unclear why that decision has been made by the developers as it is quite uncomfortable to access the unsorted bookmarks this way. Remember that new bookmarks that get added by clicking on the star in the Firefox address bar appear in the unsorted bookmarks folder.
There are actually two possible solutions to display the unsorted bookmarks folder more visibly. The first option is to go into the Firefox bookmarks manager by pressing [CTRL Shift B] and dragging and dropping the unsorted bookmarks folder into a different location. This can be either one of the toolbars or a location in the visible Firefox bookmarks menu.
The second option is to add a new bookmark in the location the unsorted bookmarks folder should appear and add the following line as the location:
place:folder=UNFILED_BOOKMARKS
The name of the bookmark can be anything. It might be required to restart Firefox before the folder is accessible in the web browser. Dragging and dropping the unsorted bookmarks folder is probably the best way of adding the unsorted bookmarks folder to another location.
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Actually there are a couple of addons that do this. They ad a button for the toolbar (I keep mine on the Bookmarks Toolbar) and a submenu on the Bookmarks Menu named “Unsorted Bookmarks”. IMO it should be a firefox 3 native feature.
Here they are:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7269
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7286
I’ve been using this system for years now. I named mine A_Unsorted so that it is at the top of my bookmark list and easy to access.
Just in case – the following procedure will remove the folder created with the above process:
Close all open FF windows.
Permit viewing of Hidden Files (under the Tools/Folder Options menu in Explorer)
Now navigate to Documents and Setting/”user”/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/bookmarkbackups
In this folder you find several backups of the FF 3.x bookmark file (places.sqlite). They have a json file extension.
Search the latest one for the term “unfiled” (without the “”)
Entries in this file are of the form {},{},{}
Delete the entry containing the “unfiled” term – be sure to remove the {} and a comma (prevents to consecutive commas)
Save the file.
Go up one folder and delete the file “places.sqlite” (and any other places.* files if they exist)
Restart Firefox – that Unsorted Bookmarks folder should be gone!
dumbest feature. what were they thinking.