Comments on: Firefox 3 Bookmarks (My god, it’s full of stars…)

By: redinhawaii

redinhawaii — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:09:04 +0000

all of this is well and good but creating a New Folder is still a mystery to me, and shamefully absent from the ease it use to be in version 2
any insights?

By: Kurt Hewett

Kurt Hewett — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:47:21 +0000

This all tagging stuff is great but I think the migration capability is ZERO!!!
Here's the problem, You see I was using Firefox 3 happily on windows using the tagging feature (& tagsifter) to organize my bookmarks, then I somehow decided to move on to kubuntu, therefor I exported the bookmarks on to an HTML & imported it to Firefox 3 in kubuntu, when I had a look at my tags they were GONE!!!
So I tried Delicious, & exported my bookmarks there just to find the folders as tags instead of the tags I manually entered.
Foxmarks gave me the same result (but nice interface though) so I ended up making folders out of the most important tag I was using in my bookmarks
(tagsifter has a migration tool that does the exact opposite of this – so maybe it'll help when I'm importing it in my kubuntu firefox 3)
by the way the new round back button looks nice too bad its not there in the kubuntu version!!!

By: Veronica

Veronica — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:53:51 +0000

I've got folders on the bookmarks toolbar and I normally just drag the favicon from the address bar to the appropriate folder – sadly now I'm on a Mac I can't do the same and drop a bookmark directly to the bookmarks pulldown menu like I could on a PC (boo!).

By: simonli

simonli — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:25:06 +0000

Is there a way to remove that drop down arrow.. ?
i dont like it

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:25:27 +0000

After reading the privacy statement of Foxmarks, I did not really feel at ease with registering there.
The Bookmarks Synchronizer plugin was great, but unfortunately was abandoned.

By: Deuce

Deuce — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:58:51 +0000

I tried to make changes to a bookmark using the Library screen. I added description and tags. But it doesn’t automatically save or give me a save button. The text I type is deleted right away.

By: Deuce

Deuce — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:58:51 +0000

I tried to make changes to a bookmark using the Library screen. I added description and tags. But it doesn’t automatically save or give me a save button. The text I type is deleted right away.

By: Kama

Kama — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:36:18 +0000

@Dria
“but I couldn’t put that bookmark into both the “Vegetable” and “Soup” subfolders at the same time.”
You actually can do this, but that’s really beside the point.

And to others, the Weave initiative does look interesting. I can’t wait until it’s out of prototype.

By: Kama

Kama — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:36:18 +0000

@Dria
“but I couldn’t put that bookmark into both the “Vegetable” and “Soup” subfolders at the same time.”
You actually can do this, but that’s really beside the point.

And to others, the Weave initiative does look interesting. I can’t wait until it’s out of prototype.

By: Philipp

Philipp — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:31:32 +0000

Nice thing. But is there any possibility to tag several bookmarks at once? Otherwise it could become very annoying to tag the bookmarks :-/

By: Philipp

Philipp — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:31:32 +0000

Nice thing. But is there any possibility to tag several bookmarks at once? Otherwise it could become very annoying to tag the bookmarks :-/

By: prakhar

prakhar — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:59:10 +0000

like most i dont organize my bookmarks and bookmark a lot of pages, but if i can rate them(!) it’ll be great.
in fact the star in location bar itself could allow me to rate my bookmark right there!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:55:22 +0000

Looking forward to del.icio.us tapping into the new bookmark system.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:55:22 +0000

Looking forward to del.icio.us tapping into the new bookmark system.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:30:08 +0000

Nice post. I was just wondering what that star thing was at the address bar. Thanks.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:30:08 +0000

Nice post. I was just wondering what that star thing was at the address bar. Thanks.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:40:00 +0000

Foxmarks are "admitting into the program everyone who has volunteered to test."
http://blog.foxmarks.com/?p=127

Create yourself a login and download the beta for FireFox 3.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:40:00 +0000

Foxmarks are “admitting into the program everyone who has volunteered to test.”
http://blog.foxmarks.com/?p=127

Create yourself a login and download the beta for FireFox 3.

By: Hubbers

Hubbers — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:37:22 +0000

I love the new FF3 but I can’t wait for Foxmarks to be updated because my home system’s bookmarks are badly out of date.

I tried to export my work bookmarks and importing them at home but FF3 didn’t want to accept my old FF2 bookmarks.

By: Gid-seo

Gid-seo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:18:18 +0000

The ability to search within bookmarks is going to save me so much time.
I, like you, am not naturally very organised when it comes to bookmarks, I start off with good intentions and then end up going back to my old ways; always with the intention of tidying it up later…

By: Gid-seo

Gid-seo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:18:18 +0000

By: Jani

Jani — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:46:38 +0000

Now that I’ve seen actual screenshots of this, it seems quite neat. Since I use Opera as my main browser, I’ve been using the keywords you can add for bookmarks as a makeshift tag field since it works kinda like tags. It would definitely be quite nice to have that one click bookmarking feature for example.

Combine the tag search thing in the URL with Opera 9.5’s new page content search (which stores content from all pages you visit and can find the pages based on that later), and you’d have a very good way to get back those pages you want.

Who knows, maybe Firefox 3 will make the UI nicer otherwise too – so far it’s been much “clunkier” than Opera’s, which is one of the main reason I don’t like Fx that much.

By: Anthony Podeski

Anthony Podeski — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:58:17 +0000

Yuck! For those of us who do know how to use bookmark folders and search in 2.x, the bookmarks pane wastes three spots with History, Tags, and All Bookmarks. I wish developers would stop stealing my screen!

By: Anthony Podeski

Anthony Podeski — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:58:17 +0000

By: fohrnicate

fohrnicate — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:20:21 +0000

“Naturally, you can still open the Bookmark dialog with cmd-D (or ctrl-D if you’re not using a Mac).” I remember the days when this would have been funny…

By: rob

rob — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:53:56 +0000

I see a lot of delicious users, but i found that Diigo gives me a better service within a better interface, check it out, works better for me. (http://www.diigo.com/)

By: fohrnicate

fohrnicate — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:20:21 +0000

“Naturally, you can still open the Bookmark dialog with cmd-D (or ctrl-D if you’re not using a Mac).” I remember the days when this would have been funny…

By: rob

rob — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:53:56 +0000

I see a lot of delicious users, but i found that Diigo gives me a better service within a better interface, check it out, works better for me. (http://www.diigo.com/)

By: robuka kenderle

robuka kenderle — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:56:25 +0000

They did a nice thing for people with sight problems with the zoom a la Opera but then they blow it totally by having the location bar drop down menu fonts be extra thin.
Brilliant, make it even harder to see than before.

And while we are at it. Why is it that you cannot use the CTLR+ to make fonts bigger when you open the Bookmarks in a separate window?

People who cant see can always make fonts bigger in the browser but cant make them bigger in the Bookmarks Manager. No continuity of thought. IF you cant see well in one, your eyesight is still gonna be bad in the other.

Much easier to add bookmarks though.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:18:40 +0000

I’m still waiting for the most annoying and missing feature – after I search for a bookmark, provide a context menu option to “open folder” where the bookmark is stored.

Yes, I know there is an add-on for this, but it seems that if bookmark management is to be complete, this is one obvious enhancement that would make life easy.