FF 18.0.2

[RussCA]

In a browser long ago, and a time far away, it used to be possible to
insert named "folders" in that browser's Bookmarks. In today's version
of that browser, this ability has either vanished or been so well hidden
that I haven't found it. Perhaps the God of Browsers has decided the
ability is no longer welcome in his/her Universe of Correct Browsing.

[Bill Braun]

18.0.2

This works for me. While on the bookmark bar navigate to where you want
the named folder to sit. Right click, select "New Folder..." then type
the name you want in the dialogue box.

Alternately, from the Firefox tab in the upper left, select Show All
Bookmarks. Select any existing folder. In the right pane, right click
and select "New Folder..." then give it a name.

Does this address your question? Using either of the above I can place a
folder anywhere I want, then drag it anywhere if the initial placement
is not what I want.

Bill

[Phil Cook]

Bookmarks>[Right click on a bookmark or folder]>New Folder.
--
Phil Cook

[»Q«]

<https://support.mozilla.org/kb/bookmark-folders-organize-your-bookmarks>

[RussCA]

Okay. I created a "folder", then moved a couple of bookmarks into it.

Now I have the problem of opening the ONE bookmark in that folder that I
want, rather than r-click and "Open all in tabs", which is a really
stupid thing as the only apparent option for opening the enclosed bookmarks.

[»Q«]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:12:21 -0500
RussCA <hom...@cogeco.ca> wrote:

> Okay. I created a "folder", then moved a couple of bookmarks into it.
>
> Now I have the problem of opening the ONE bookmark in that folder
> that I want, rather than r-click and "Open all in tabs", which is a
> really stupid thing as the only apparent option for opening the
> enclosed bookmarks.

If you can see the bookmarks in the folder, you can click any one of
them to open it.

If you can't see the bookmarks in the folder, something is wrong, but I
can't guess what.

[RussCA]

I don't know the proper incantation to open the new folder into which I
moved a couple of bookmarks. All I can do is r-click the folder name
and choose "Open All in Tabs" or whatever it says. I don't see an
option to only open one bookmark. Google Chrome does it much better.

[garcia]

If you use the customise your tool bar option, just right click on it & add a bookmark button then you can open a side panel with your bookmarks & off you go, one click access
Hope it helps
Garcia

[Keith Nuttle]

Where is the new folder you created, In the accounts or in the bookmarks?

[»Q«]

I can't find any way of accessing bookmarks that makes non-obvious how
to open a folder.

If you give the steps you take to get to the folder that won't open,
probably someone can give you the steps from there to see the bookmarks
inside it.

> Google Chrome does it much better.

You must enjoy that very much.

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <20130218162...@fuchsia.remarqs.net>,

Seconded. When I (left-)click on Bookmarks from the menu, I get a
drop-down list, showing the few (11) bookmarks I've left not in folders,
and lots of folders, which show with a folder icon, and a little
right-pointing arrow; if I just _place_ the mouse on one of those
(anywhere in the line, doesn't have to be on the arrow), a column
appears to the right, showing all the bookmarks I have in that folder -
with, indeed, "open all in tabs" at the bottom of the list. If that
includes sub-folders, and I hover over one of them, the same happens
(except in my case it then opens to the left as my screen's not wide
enough, i. e. it opens over the first bookmark list). Just clicking on
one of the bookmarks opens it.

If your main bookmark list is so long that it won't all fit on the
screen, you should see a little down-pointing arrow at the bottom, and
if your new folders are near the bottom of the list, you may have to
scroll down (I can't remember if you have to click that arrow or just
hover over it) to make them visible.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

A bird in the hand makes it hard to blow your nose.

[RussCA]

Ummm, I am talking about whatever it is that Mozilla calls "New Folder"
in the Bookmarks whatever it is called.

[RussCA]

1. l-click "Bookmarks"
2. r-click on the Bookmark drop-down; l-click "New Folder"
3. A dialog box appears; give the new bookmark a name; l-click "OK"
4. Navigate to a web page
5. l-click "Bookmarks"
6. l-click the web page just saved and drag it onto the New Bookmark
7. Release the l-mouse button; the dragged page should vanish from the
Bookmarks drop-down
8. l-click "Bookmarks"
9. Try to open the "New Folder", what ever you called it in step 3
10. I can only find that r-clicking the New Folder, which brings up a
new pop-up menu, and the only entry in that menu that does anything
close to what I want to do is "Open All in Tabs". I think this is more
than a little overkill.

>
>> Google Chrome does it much better.
>
> You must enjoy that very much.

I'm not selling Google Chrome. It is nice, but also lacks a lot, and
lately has become a performance and memory hog. Firefox used to handle
bookmarks better than it does now.

>

[RussCA]

At last, a rational explanation.

I did as you said, and knowing what to look for, I saw it. I am using a
26" 16:10 monitor, and I am visually impaired, in fact blind in my right
eye. Hence the nearly invisible "right-pointing arrow" on the far right
of the bookmarks drop-down. I miss a lot of such subtle marks. And
this current penchant for the "smaller is better" mentality does not
help. It only serves to obfuscate.

I don't know how much quality assurance is done by Mozilla, nor do I
know how such features are chosen. And I am certain that I'm not the
only user so affected.

[WaltS]

Left click the folder, select bookmark, activate bookmark.

--
Fedora 18.0 (64-bit) KDE 4.9.5
Thunderbird Release
Are they out yet?

[Jay Garcia]

On 19.02.2013 07:32, RussCA wrote:

Russ ..

Mozilla takes accessibility quite seriously. You may be interested in
this wiki and you can get involved, etc.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility



--
Jay Garcia - www.ufaq.org - Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Thunderbird
Mozilla Contribute Coordinator Team - www.mozilla.org/contribute/
Mozilla Mozillian Member - www.mozillians.org
Mozilla Contributor Member - www.mozilla.org/credits/

[RussCA]

Thanks, Jay. I will check it out. But using TB and FF makes me woner
just how serious they are.

[Keith Nuttle]

On 2/19/2013 2:34 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

> Seconded. When I (left-)click on Bookmarks from the menu, I get a
> drop-down list, showing the few (11) bookmarks I've left not in folders,
> and lots of folders, which show with a folder icon, and a little
> right-pointing arrow; if I just _place_ the mouse on one of those
> (anywhere in the line, doesn't have to be on the arrow), a column
> appears to the right, showing all the bookmarks I have in that folder -
> with, indeed, "open all in tabs" at the bottom of the list. If that
> includes sub-folders, and I hover over one of them, the same happens
> (except in my case it then opens to the left as my screen's not wide
> enough, i. e. it opens over the first bookmark list). Just clicking on
> one of the bookmarks opens it.
>
> If your main bookmark list is so long that it won't all fit on the
> screen, you should see a little down-pointing arrow at the bottom, and
> if your new folders are near the bottom of the list, you may have to
> scroll down (I can't remember if you have to click that arrow or just
> hover over it) to make them visible.

What do you get when you click Bookmarks in the menu bar, then click
"Show All Bookmarks" (Ctrl shift B) (at the top of the drop down) or
click "Unsorted Bookmarks" at the bottom of the drop down menu

[»Q«]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 07:50:59 -0500
RussCA <hom...@cogeco.ca> wrote:

> On 2/18/2013 10:51 PM, »Q« wrote:

> > If you give the steps you take to get to the folder that won't open,
> > probably someone can give you the steps from there to see the
> > bookmarks inside it.
>
> 1. l-click "Bookmarks"
> 2. r-click on the Bookmark drop-down; l-click "New Folder"
> 3. A dialog box appears; give the new bookmark a name; l-click "OK"
> 4. Navigate to a web page
> 5. l-click "Bookmarks"
> 6. l-click the web page just saved and drag it onto the New Bookmark
> 7. Release the l-mouse button; the dragged page should vanish from
> the Bookmarks drop-down
> 8. l-click "Bookmarks"
> 9. Try to open the "New Folder", what ever you called it in step 3

Position the mouse over the folder, without clicking. The bookmarks
menu is a standard automagically expanding menu, so you should see the
bookmarks while you're hovering over the folder.

> 10. I can only find that r-clicking the New Folder, which brings up a
> new pop-up menu, and the only entry in that menu that does anything
> close to what I want to do is "Open All in Tabs". I think this is
> more than a little overkill.

Since you've said many, many times that it doesn't do what you want, I
recommend stopping doing that; it seems like overkill.

> >> Google Chrome does it much better.
> >
> > You must enjoy that very much.
> I'm not selling Google Chrome. It is nice, but also lacks a lot, and
> lately has become a performance and memory hog.

Do go on.

> Firefox used tohandle bookmarks better than it does now.

When it comes to what you're trying to do, opening a bookmarks in a
folder from the bookmarks menu, Firefox has always handled it the same
way.f

[»Q«]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:32:07 -0500
RussCA <hom...@cogeco.ca> wrote:

> On 2/19/2013 2:34 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

> > When I (left-)click on Bookmarks from the menu, I get a drop-down
> > list, showing the few (11) bookmarks I've left not in folders, and
> > lots of folders, which show with a folder icon, and a little
> > right-pointing arrow; if I just _place_ the mouse on one of those
> > (anywhere in the line, doesn't have to be on the arrow), a column
> > appears to the right, showing all the bookmarks I have in that
> > folder - with, indeed, "open all in tabs" at the bottom of the
> > list. If that includes sub-folders, and I hover over one of them,
> > the same happens (except in my case it then opens to the left as my
> > screen's not wide enough, i. e. it opens over the first bookmark
> > list). Just clicking on one of the bookmarks opens it.

> At last, a rational explanation.
>
> I did as you said, and knowing what to look for, I saw it. I am
> using a 26" 16:10 monitor, and I am visually impaired, in fact blind
> in my right eye.

You'd get faster help if you mentioned your trouble seeing the screen
in your first post about any problem.

You can't right- or left-click the folder until you've placed the
cursor over it, at which point the bookmarks you want become visible.
Since you right-clicked many times without seeing the bookmarks, it was
a mystery (until now) that you didn't see them.

A further mystery is that Chrome's bookmarks menu works the same way
Firefox's does with respect to expanding folders.

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <-dSdnQGkb55H477M...@mozilla.org>, RussCA

<hom...@cogeco.ca> writes:
>On 2/19/2013 2:34 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

[]

>> Seconded. When I (left-)click on Bookmarks from the menu, I get a
>> drop-down list, showing the few (11) bookmarks I've left not in folders,
>> and lots of folders, which show with a folder icon, and a little
>> right-pointing arrow; if I just _place_ the mouse on one of those

>> (anywhere in the line, doesn't have to be on the arrow), a column

>> appears to the right, showing all the bookmarks I have in that folder -
>> with, indeed, "open all in tabs" at the bottom of the list. If that

[]

>> If your main bookmark list is so long that it won't all fit on the
>> screen, you should see a little down-pointing arrow at the bottom, and
>> if your new folders are near the bottom of the list, you may have to
>> scroll down (I can't remember if you have to click that arrow or just
>> hover over it) to make them visible.
>At last, a rational explanation.

<beam>. I do tend to be rather lengthy, but it avoids the need to go
round several times. Glad you found it useful.

>
>I did as you said, and knowing what to look for, I saw it. I am using
>a 26" 16:10 monitor, and I am visually impaired, in fact blind in my
>right eye. Hence the nearly invisible "right-pointing arrow" on the
>far right of the bookmarks drop-down. I miss a lot of such subtle
>marks. And this current penchant for the "smaller is better" mentality
>does not help. It only serves to obfuscate.

But, as I said in the line I've isolated above, you don't have to click
on that arrow: you drop down the list of bookmarks-and-folders from the
word "Bookmarks" in the menu, and then just hover the mouse _anywhere_
in the line of one of the folders: it doesn't matter whether you're over
the name of the folder, the little right-pointing arrow, or the blank
space in between; a further list of the bookmarks in that folder should
appear to the right.

>
>I don't know how much quality assurance is done by Mozilla, nor do I
>know how such features are chosen. And I am certain that I'm not the
>only user so affected.
>

There's no need even to see that little arrow: if you're hovering over a
"folder", you should see the bookmarks in it. Or did you mean the
_down_-pointing arrow at the bottom of the list of bookmarks if you've
got too many? You did say the right-pointing one.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

one can't go from `supposed crackpot ideas have been right before' to `we
should
take this latest crackpot idea onboard without making it fight for acceptance
like all the previous ones'. - Richard Caley, 2002 February 11 00:02:28