Firefox bookmarks

Discussion in 'Software' started by dlb, Nov 21, 2008.

  1. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    Perhaps I've overlooked something very simple, basic, and obvious, but when I add a new bookmark in Firefox, it gets added to the end of the list, and is not merged alphabetically. With IE, you can right-click the Favorites list and select "Sort by name" but FF doesn't seem to have this. I end up dragging the new bookmarks to their alphabetically correct locations. This isn't really a big deal, and it takes maybe 5 seconds, but it's an annoyance, and it seems to me that it's a fairly large oversight by the folks at Mozilla (or by the dude asking this question LOL )

    Thanks.

    [dlb]
     
  2. bjgarrick

    bjgarrick MajorGeeks Admin - Malware Expert

  3. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

  4. Buck_nekid

    Buck_nekid Specialist

    You can also do this right from the bookmarks list, don't have to goto "Organize bookmarks" just on the List (say "Forums", "Mail" etc.) right click that and goto 'sort by name," not over in the actual listings of bookmarks.
     
  5. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    Works perfectly. Thanks! :highfive This is more of what I was looking for. The link provided above by bjgarrick works good too, but it's much more involved then clicking "Bookmarks", then right-clicking "Organize Bookmarks" and selecting "Sort by name". Three clicks.... it's a beautiful thing ;)

    Many thanks to both Buck_Nekid and bjgarrick for you prompt and helpful replies!

    After reading some of the comments at bjgarrick's link, I must agree with some of them: why aren't new bookmarks automatically alphabetized when added to the list? With all of the other amazing and excellent features in Firefox, it seems that an auto-alphabetizing bookmarks list isn't too much to ask for. Maybe I'll fire off an email to the Mozilla group ;)

    [dlb]
     
    Last edited: Nov 21, 2008
  6. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    For every person that wants the bookmarks alphabetized, there is another person who wants the last bookmark sved to go to the end of the list because they forget what the site was and have no hopes of finding it again if it is automatically alphabetized! (that would be me) I like my bookmarks placed in chronological order so I can go through them and move them into folders when I have time. In the folders, I put them in alphabetical order.
    I don't organize until I look at a site again and see if I want to save it or I bookmarked it just to get back there and read it/print out info before I throw the bookmark away.
     

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