Keyboard shortcut for Bookmarks Toolbar

Fahad Fateh

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Jul 15, 2008, 8:48:15 PM7/15/08

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How can I access the bookmarks toolbar through my keyboard?

Any combination of shortcut keys and arrow keys?

Thanks

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Lou

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Jul 15, 2008, 9:34:55 PM7/15/08

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Fahad Fateh wrote:
> How can I access the bookmarks toolbar through my keyboard?
>
> Any combination of shortcut keys and arrow keys?
>
> Thanks
>

If you mean the bookmarks drop down then Alt B
If you want to bookmark a page then Ctrl D

Lou

Tony Mechelynck

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Jul 15, 2008, 10:50:38 PM7/15/08

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I think he means the bookmarks toolbar, which usually lies horizontally
just below the Location/Search toolbar, unless you hide it via the View
menu.

You can access the URL bar by Ctrl-L, the Search bar by Ctrl-K; I don't
know if there's a specific keystroke for the Bookmarks toolbar, but you
can get at it from either of the other two by hitting Tab just the right
number of times.

Or else, Alt+B (on English-language builds; it may be different in other
languages) gives the Bookmarks _menu_, where you can (by hitting
Down-arrow the right number of times, Right-arrow if necessary to enter
a subfolder, etc., then Enter) select any bookmark and load it.

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Jul 16, 2008, 12:59:29 AM7/16/08

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"Fahad Fateh" <neoxee...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Alt>V>T>B

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Fahad Fateh

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Jul 16, 2008, 1:40:06 AM7/16/08

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>
> Alt>V>T>B
>
>
No, I want to open bookmarks and Live Bookmarks items on my Bookmarks
Toolbar through keyboard shortcuts if possible.

I am not trying to access the Bookmarks Menu or control the appearance of
Bookmarks Toolbar.

Thanks.

David McRitchie

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Jul 16, 2008, 2:31:55 AM7/16/08

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"Fahad Fateh" <neoxee...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.432.121618683...@lists.mozilla.org...

>>
>> Alt>V>T>B
>>
>>
> No, I want to open bookmarks and Live Bookmarks items on my Bookmarks
> Toolbar through keyboard shortcuts if possible.
>
> I am not trying to access the Bookmarks Menu or control the appearance of
> Bookmarks Toolbar.

You can open any bookmark (item) by assigning a keyword shortcut to the bookmark,
which is done in the bookmark properties. Once you have created you bookmark,
go to your bookmarks, find your bookmark, right click on it to to show bookmark
there you can assign a keyword.

It is much easier to create the keyword when you assign the bookmark but
Mozilla does not include it . You can solve that by adding a line to your userChrome.css
or you can install the "OpenBook" extension see
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm

Lou

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Jul 16, 2008, 4:22:56 AM7/16/08

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Fahad Fateh

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Jul 16, 2008, 8:49:58 AM7/16/08

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> seems to be a Bug here... the shortcut for BOTH the BM-sidebar *and* the
> BM-Toolbar is Ctrl+B but here, that only toggles the BM-Sidebar
>
>
How could it be for both? Why would any one want to toggle the toolbar with
the sidebar?

And by looking here<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html>it
seems that there is no bug and Ctrl+B is for toggling the bookmarks
sidebar.

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Jul 17, 2008, 12:05:35 AM7/17/08

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:09:07 +0200
squaredancer <square...@t-online.de> wrote:

> On 16.07.2008 14:49, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Fahad Fateh
> to generate the following:? :

> >> seems to be a Bug here... the shortcut for BOTH the BM-sidebar
> >> *and* the BM-Toolbar is Ctrl+B but here, that only toggles the
> >> BM-Sidebar
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > How could it be for both? Why would any one want to toggle the
> > toolbar with the sidebar?
> >
> > And by looking
> > here<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/moz_shortcuts.html>it
> > seems that there is no bug and Ctrl+B is for toggling the bookmarks
> > sidebar.
>

> go take a look at the menu....

I can't find a reference to ctrl+b in the menus.

Once you bring up the toolbars' context menu (I do this by
right-clicking it -- I don't know a keyboard shortcut for it), then b
toggles the check for the bookmarks toolbar.

Or you can do it with alt, v, t, b.

These should work with Windows or GNU/Linux. I don't know enough about
getting to menu items with Mac to translate.

Fahad Fateh

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Jul 17, 2008, 1:24:07 AM7/17/08

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Same here.