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

Kurt Hewett — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:47:21 -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!!!

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

Veronica — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:53:51 -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!).

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

Jeff — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:25:27 -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.

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

Deuce — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:58:51 -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.

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

Kama — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:36:18 -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.

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

Philipp — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:31:32 -0000

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

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

prakhar — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:59:10 -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!

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

Scott — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:55:22 -0000

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

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

Tyler — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:30:08 -0000

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

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

Jake — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:40:00 -0000

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

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

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

Hubz — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:37:22 -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.

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

Gid-seo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:18:18 -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...

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

Jani — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:46:38 -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.

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

Anthony Podeski — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:58:17 -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!

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

fohrnicate — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:20:21 -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...

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

rob — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:53:56 -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/)

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

Drew — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:18:40 -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.

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

mawrya — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:05:25 -0000

@ Nick: on second though, I think I know what you are talking about: bookmarks that that you have neither tagged nor put in a bookmark folder, ones you have simply "starred" or "bookmarked" with the one-click star. Those can be found in the bookmark organizer inside the special "Unfiled Bookmarks" folder. You can see this folder in the screen shots of the bookmarks organizer window. Again, though typing some keywords, from the bookmark's URL, into the URL bar will bring up these bookmarks, along with items from your history, listing them with a star beside them to indicate they are bookmarks.

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

mawrya — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:57:11 -0000

@ Nick: do you mean "tagged" bookmarks? In Firefox 3, ALL bookmarks are represented with a star icon, so I'm not sure what you mean by "starred bookmarks". Consider it a merging of the IE "favorites" and Mozilla "bookmarks". IE had the nice star icon but Mozilla had the more logical "bookmarks" name for referring to saved URLs. Combine them and we have bookmarks that flagged as such using a star icon.

If you are referring to tagged bookmarks, the article did mention, even shows a picture of accessing tagged bookmarks by opening up the master "Tags" folder in the bookmarks organizer and clicking on a named tag icon. So, you don't need to use a smart bookmarks folder to get at them. Of course the easiest way to access tagged bookmarks is to just type the tag name(s) into the URL bar. When you do, you instantly realize why it has been dubbed the "Awesome Bar", all the bookmarks show up with little tag or star icons. Very intuitive, maybe even natural.

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

robuka kenderle — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:56:25 -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.

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

Jay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:47:50 -0000

Wow.
I didn't read the whole thing but I hope it makes exporting and backing up bookmarks easier as well. Be nice to have a standard here amongst all browsers.

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

sunil garg — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:31:03 -0000

some of the web sites do not display the icons on the favorites bar. it will be nice if they could let us choose/change an icon for each web site in it's properties dialogue box

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

seeker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:54:08 -0000

BOOKMARK SYNC:
I've used both the google and foxmarks product, and though the google product does MORE than sync bookmarks, it is annoying because every two weeks (which comes more often than you think) it forces you to log in again. Foxmarks is excellent, and you can use it in ff35b if you get the beta.
http://blog.foxmarks.com/?p...

USE FF3?
beta 4 was buggy, but beta 5 is nice, it is definitely time to download. the only drawback is many (about half?) of the extensions out there don't yet support b5. A few of my most critical ones, (FEBE/CLEO, Tab Mix Plus, Better Gmail, Better Greader, and Tiny Menu) still don't work in b5.

For my up to date list of ff3 extensions, check out http://www.twoorthree.net/2...

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

jive — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:22:04 -0000

So I take it they got rid of the description field and keyword field? I'm curious if Quick Search bookmarks are going away. I like being able to type:
dict whatever
and have it look up whatever on dictionary.com without me having to type it in or use the changeable search on the topright.

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

Jay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:20:53 -0000

Del.icio.us ftw my friend!

http://del.icio.us