gHacks technology news » sort bookmarks http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Firefox Bookmark Sorting Extension SortPlaces http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/28/firefox-bookmark-sorting-extension-sortplaces/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/28/firefox-bookmark-sorting-extension-sortplaces/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:08:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14846 firefoxThe firefox web browser does not offer many bookmark sorting options. The only option that is actually provided by right-clicking a folder is to sort the bookmarks by name. This is however not a permanent sort order as it gets disrupted as soon as new bookmarks are added to the folder. The sort order by name, which can be either descending or ascending, is probably not enough for many users who would like to have more control over how their bookmarks are displayed in the Internet browser.

The SortPlaces add-on adds many important sorting options plus the incredibly useful option to automatically sort new bookmarks according to the sorting parameters that the user defined in the add-on’s options.

The Firefox add-on distinguishes between menu, toolbar and unfiled bookmarks and offers different settings for each bookmarking category. Nine different sorting options are available in each category including sorting them by name, url, visit count, keyword or date added. The sorting order can be reversed in the same menu and it is possible to define the sort order for queries, folders, livemarks and bookmarks as well. By default queries appear above folders which appear above livemarks and bookmarks.

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It is furthermore possible to enable automatic bookmark sorting and to include or exclude bookmarks or bookmark folders from the operation. It usually did not take longer than a second to sort through individual bookmark folders with dozens of bookmarks. A complete run on the other end did not seem to end at all. Maybe it is broken or maybe it is just taking very long. SortPlaces is nevertheless a great add-on for users who want to sort their bookmarks in a certain order that is not offered by default.

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Sort Places is an experimentally Firefox add-on that provides better and faster sorting options for Firefox bookmarks. The add-on adds a Sort entry to the bookmarks menu and can also be added as an icon to a Firefox toolbar.

It sorts all bookmarks by default but can be modified to sort only selected folders. The options that make it superior to the default Firefox sorting function are the following:

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  • Exclude Toolbars from sorting
  • Define Sort Order by assigning values to queries, folders, bookmarks and livemarks
  • Sort Places uses separators to define groups that will be sorted individually

Sort Places will remember the settings that the user entered while sorting bookmarks but it will not automatically sort newly added or moved bookmarks. It would be an ideal bookmark sorting add-on if the author could somehow implement that feature. As of now it is easier to access than the default way of sorting bookmarks in Firefox and provides much needed filters that define how the bookmarks are sorted.

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