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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 26th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Check Firefox Bookmarks

Up until recently there was not a single add-on available for the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser that would check the bookmarks for invalid or duplicate entries. Several add-ons existed that were able to perform the checks in Firefox 2. The reason for the missing add-ons was a change in the storage location for Firefox [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 12th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Fix: Cannot Delete Firefox 3 Bookmarks

Something strange happened today. Deleting a Firefox bookmark in the bookmarks toolbar or in the bookmarks folder removed that entry from Firefox. It did however reappear after a restart of the browser which was puzzling and annoying as it was not possible to remove old bookmarks from the computer system.
The best way to start the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 6th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Create Firefox Smart Bookmarks

Firefox 3 changed the bookmarking system from using html files to using sqlite databases. One benefit of using databases is the possibility to run custom queries. Three of the so called smart bookmarks are already available after installing Firefox3: Most Visited, Recently Bookmarked and Recent Tags all make use of database queries to provide the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 1st, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Check For Dead Bookmarks in Firefox 3

Many applications that were able to check the boomarks in previous versions of Firefox are no longer working with the latest Firefox 3 because of the changes that have been made to the way those bookmarks are stored. Firefox 2 and previous versions did store the bookmarks in a file called bookmarks.html while Firefox 3 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 13th, 2008
  • Comments: 29

How to move the bookmarks in Firefox 3

Firefox 3 changed the way bookmarks are stored on the computer. Before they were simply saved in a bookmarks.html file in the user’s profile folder and it was easy to add the browser.bookmarks.file parameter in about:config to change the location manually. The new Firefox introduces a database driven design and bookmarks are now stored in [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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