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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 19th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Sort Firefox Bookmarks

The option to sort bookmarks in Firefox is tucked away in the Bookmarking Manager. While the sorting options should be sufficient for most users the lack of distinguishing between different kind of bookmarks and the temporariness of the selected options make it barely usable.
Sort Places is an experimentally Firefox add-on that provides better and faster [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 19th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Sync Firefox Bookmarks Without Third Party Help

Accessing the Internet on two different computers regularly makes many users crave for data synchronization solutions to be able to access the same bookmarks, email accounts or other data on all computers. Several extensions are available for the Firefox browser that allow bookmark synchronization: Mozilla Weave and Foxmarks to name two.
Both services use remote servers [...]

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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: Oct 6th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Firefox Bookmarks: Reset Special Folders

Firefox 3 introduced several special folders for Firefox bookmarks management, among them the Unsorted Bookmarks, Most Visited, Recently Bookmarked and Recent Tags folders. Unsorted Bookmarks is being used to store new bookmarks that have been added to Firefox by clicking on the star in the Firefox address bar. In case you have done that and [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Fast Firefox 3 Unsorted Bookmarks Access

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 [...]

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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 5th, 2006
  • Comments: 4

How to compact your firefox bookmarks tab

The length of the bookmarks tab in firefox has been bothering me for a while. It is equal to the length of the largest entry which could mean that it could quickly clutter your interface when you have some sort of subfolder system that I use. One method to overcome this would be to strip every bookmark so that it would never use more than 20 chars, everything else would be cut off. I did that for some time but discovered a way that makes everything so much easier.

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