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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add Trash To Firefox Bookmarks
Deleting bookmarks in Firefox will remove them permanently from the web browser. There is no going back which might sometimes end in chaos and desperation. Some users might feel more secure with some sort of backup to recover accidentally deleted bookmarks. That’s where Bookmark Trash comes into play. It adds A Bookmark Trash folder to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Temporary Bookmarks
Temporary Bookmarks are bookmarks that expire after a certain amount of time automatically. While most users prefer their bookmarks to last indefinitely some might want to be able to add temporary bookmarks to the system without having to worry about manually uninstalling them after a certain period of time. One prime example would be to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- 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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- 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 [...]