Web browser bookmarks seem to have lost much of their appeal in past years. The same can be said for bookmarking sites like Delicious which have seen a drop in user count. Question is: What are users doing instead? Are they posting interesting links to their social networking profiles to have them available there? This [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Restore Firefox Bookmarks
One of the things that I migrate to new computer systems that I build or but are my bookmarks. I have a collection of a few hundred sites in my bookmarks that I use regularly thanks to browsers recommending bookmarks when entering text into the address bar. A corrupt or accidentally deleted bookmarks file could [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Password Protect Firefox Bookmarks
Firefox bookmarks are accessible for all users of a computer system if one user account is used instead of individual user accounts. This can be a issue if you want to protect data from being seen or accessed by other users. But even if there are multiple user accounts, chance is that some may have [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Samfind Bookmarks Bar For Firefox
Firefox offers many options to work with bookmarks in the browser. From the standard Bookmarks menu to a single icon in one of the toolbars, almost everything is possible by default. Some users on the other hand may want additional options which are usually added by installing add-ons. Samfind Bookmarks Bar is an add-on that [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Remove Selected Bookmarks From The Firefox Address Bar
Firefox tries automatically to match the domain name or keyword that a user enters in the Firefox address bar. It compares the text entered with the browsing history and bookmarks for example. One thing that I noticed lately was that some of the bookmarks that were displayed in the address bar were no longer of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Keep Firefox Menus Open After Selection
If you ever wanted to open a few websites from a bookmarks folder, the history or the autocomplete option in Firefox you know that it requires more work than it should. The menus close automatically after each selection which makes that selection process time consuming and uncomfortable. There is no workaround available for this with [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Improve Firefox’s Bookmarks Management With Incredible Bookmarks
Firefox’s bookmarks management capabilities are limited. It is for instance not possible to check for duplicate bookmarks or dead links in the bookmarks manager or to comfortably change the bookmarks that are displayed in one of the web browser toolbars. The Incredible Bookmarks add-on for Firefox changes this. It is an all bases covered add-on [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Verify Firefox Bookmarks With Check Places
The amount of bookmarks increases with time. Most users add bookmarks regularly from time to time but do not delete them if they are not needed anymore or if the websites ceased to exist. One of the main reasons for this is that most web browsers do not provide the tools to check bookmarks effectively. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Exclude Websites From Appearing In The Firefox Address Bar
The Firefox awesome bar, often also called location bar or address bar, tries to match letters entered by the Firefox user to bookmarks, tags and the Firefox web browsing history. Several settings can be changed so that the awesome bar will ignore some of the locations that it searches for matches. Firefox does not offer [...]