Desktop Icon for Firefox Bookmarks - How to install?
Grandad1900
me directly to my Firefox bookmarks list such that the second mouse
click will open the required website (or at least open a folder such
that the third click takes me to the required website)?
I can do this in Internet Explorer and it's very fast and convenient.
It works because this icon shortcut leads to the IE favourites/
bookmark file which is automatically updated as I add bookmarks to it.
At the moment with Firefox it's painfully slow with 5 or so clicks,
opening menus and possibly some scrolling, in order to reach a
required bookmarked website amongst my list of 500.
Help would be much appreciated!
David McRitchie
There is a Bookmarks icon that you can move to the Toolbar (it has a white star on it),
It is a waste of space on the toolbar as it serves no useful purpose, as there are better
features available in Firefox.
view -> Toolbars -> Customize
described in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization_-_Firefox
As far as I can tell, IE does not support a search or a Find within Favorites.
In Firefox you may have lost the "Find" that you had when bookmarks were in a
bookmarks.html file, but you now have very powerful search facilities built-in to
Firefox.
I would suggest watching the following video 2min 55 sec on the AwesomeBar.
http://people.mozilla.com/~beltzner/overview-of-firefox3.swf
Basically you can search your bookmarks and history on any character strings
found in the Title and/or the url (tags too, but rather irrelevant). This search
is available from the Location Bar, from search boxes in Bookmarks Sidebar (Ctrl+B),
History Sidebar (Ctrl+H), and from the Library list views of Bookmarks (Ctrl+Shift+B),
and History (Ctrl+Shift+H).
Sorting and rearranging bookmarks - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_and_rearranging_bookmarks_-_Firefox
Viewing the browsing history - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Viewing_the_browsing_history_-_Firefox
If you want to restrict searching on the AwesomeBar to strictly Bookmarks at
the Location Bar without bringing up a sidebar you could include a space
delimited asterisk ("*") in the search strings. So you could simply type in
* zine bookmark
and you would find any Mozillazine KB articles that have bookmark in their
title (/name) and or url. You can modify your bookmark properties to make them
more meaningful to such usage such as adding additional words to the name/title.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search
Some extensions to help with bad user chrome interface
"oldbar" extension, to put location bar search results into single line instead of double lines
which take 3 times as much space.
"Locationbar Limit" extension, change number of visible results shown in locationbar dropdown when searching.
I have 3,576 bookmarks, the above are what I use, there are a lot of people who have a
lot more bookmarks. A lot of my bookmarks are keyword shortcuts so I often don't have
to even bother searching for a bookmark, and many of those keyword shortcuts include
substitution ("%s" or "%S") and/or JavaScript so greatly reduce the number of bookmarks
needed.
Firefox Keyword Shortcuts
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm
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David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm
Al
So, in other words, you cannot or won't answer the OP's question.
John McGaw
I've not found a way to do precisely what you ask for. The closest I've
come is to drag often-used sites from the address bar to the FF icon in the
Windows 7 task bar. This "pins" the site to that icon and if I right-click
the FF icon there I have a choice of opening any site which I've pinned to
it. This _may_ work in Vista but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work in
anything earlier.
David McRitchie
> David McRitchie wrote:
>> "Grandad1900" ...
>>> Hello - How do I create an Icon on my Windows desktop that will take
>>> me directly to my Firefox bookmarks list
> So, in other words, you cannot or won't answer the OP's question.
You're right, I got carried away with the solution.
Internet Explorer interfaces directly with the Windows operating system and
the Favorites file is (or maybe was) a bookmarks.html file.
Firefox is not built-in to Windows, and the Firefox bookmarks file is a database, so
it is not possible to place a desktop icon that is the Firefox bookmarks file
as IE can. Even if it were possible in Firefox, only one Firefox profile could
use it.
The question and answer(s) boiled down to accessing files faster, and the solutions
provided provide access to the files through Firefox bookmarks far faster than
is possible with IE.
keithnuttle
What I have done for my wife that is similar to what you want is this.
1) Click the bookmark icon, and click organize bookmarks.
2) Click Import and back up.
3 Click Export HTML; placing the exported flie in some convenient
location.
4) Open Tools --> Options
5) In the General Tab place the location of the Bookmark HTML that you
created above.
It should be entered something like this: (The important thing other
than having the correct location for the bookmark.html file is the
"file:///C:\" )
file:///C:\Documents and Settings\your profile\My Documents\Bookmarks.html
Once you have this set up, whenever you open Firefox it will display a
list of your book marks as you wanted. As you are browsing any time you
clicking Home in the toolbar you will get the list of your bookmarks.
PS: you will periodically need to re-export the Bookmarks to this file
as they will not automatically be updated.
Jonas P Eckerman
> Hello - How do I create an Icon on my Windows desktop that will take
> me directly to my Firefox bookmarks list such that the second mouse
Haven't tested, but this should work:
Go to "about:config".
Set "browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML" to true.
Close Firefox.
Find "bookmarks.html" in your Firefox profile folder and create a
shortcut to it on the desktop.
The "bookmarks.html" file is updated when you close Firefox, so it's not
allways fresh.
More info at:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML
Or maybe the MyBookmarks extension (again, not tested by me) combined
with a a shortcut to "firefox -url about:mybookmarks".
Available at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7748/
Regards
/Jonas
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Fox on the run
>
> The question and answer(s) boiled down to accessing files faster, and the solutions
> provided provide access to the files through Firefox bookmarks far faster than
> is possible with IE.
David, you are always a wealth of knowledge when it comes to all
things Firefox. I learn a lot from your posts. However understand
that what is fast for you may not be fast for someone else. The OP is
looking to reduce mouse clicks. Seems almost irrelevant to many if
you need 2, 3, or even 5 mouse clicks. The difference is but a second
perhaps. But if someone has Parkinson's or some other debilitating
condition that affects their motor skills, then those few extra clicks
could be significant.
As for a possible solution for the OP:
I was hoping that there was a way to have FF open with the bookmarks
sidebar open by default, but can't seem to make that happen (unless
there is a hidden preference to do that).
If you are looking at three mouse clicks, that's pretty much the way
it is by default. First click - start Firefox. Second click -
Bookmarks pulldown menu. Navigate to the bookmark you want and the
third click opens it.
If you want something quicker, the earlier suggestion to auto export
your bookmarks to bookmarks.html and then set that as your home page
is the only way I can think of to do it.
JB
keithnuttle
This is much better than I had set up for my wife, while she knew I did
not know how to update the bookmarks when she changed them she really
appreciates the slight change you gave us.
I would also like to thank Rom for the information he gave us.
Christoph Schmees
> ..
> Internet Explorer interfaces directly with the Windows operating system and
> the Favorites file is (or maybe was) a bookmarks.html file.
it is a *folder* containing a *file* for each bookmark. You may
call this approach "broken by design", but this applies to most
of Windoze anyway.
Christoph
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