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How Can I Manage My Firefox Bookmarks?

After you have been on the Web for a while, you collect a ton of bookmarks from Web sites you have visited and want to visit again. Now organizing these and putting them in places where it is easier for you to find them is another task that some might hate to do. So how do you manage your Firefox bookmarks?

To get to the Bookmarks manager click on “Bookmarks” in the menu bar and then click on “Manage Bookmarks…”. A new window should come up with your Bookmarks Manager loaded inside.

Now this is where all the magic happens as far as bookmarks go. You can add new bookmarks from here. You can organize them into new folders. You can drag and drop them around to where you need them to be.

In the Bookmarks Manager, if you click File and then “Import” you can import your bookmarks from another browser or from a file. If you want to export your bookmarks to back them up or take them to another browser, all you need to do is go to File and then hit “Export”. You can then save them anywhere you wish as a “.html” file.

One more neat feature that people don’t pay much attention to is the “View” option in the Bookmark Manager’s menu bar. Clicking on that will allow you to sort your bookmarks in any number of ways. If you are looking for a specific one – this would be the way to find it.

How do you add things to the Bookmarks Toolbar? All you need to do is drag and drop bookmarks or folders into the folder called “Bookmarks Toolbar Folder”. If this name is a little too long for you – you can also rename it and you shouldn’t be hurting anything. I renamed mine to “Links”.

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  • mrjoeboo
    Managing bookmarks only works well if you can use them on all your computers. Best Firefox addon "FoxMarks" to be able to synch bookmarks over multiple computers.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
  • MagnoliaSouth
    I'm with Baxter. I don't use the Foxfire bookmarking feature because for me nothing can compare to del.icio.us. I'm a tagging kind of girl, AND I can sync with any computer I ever use. I can even create "folder" to use on the bar of my favorite links too.
  • RyanM
    Nice writeup man I have been enjoying all the basic stuff you have been writing about here the last few days. Helps us new guys to firefox out for sure. Thanks!
  • I find the easiest way to do this is to open an account at del.icio.us (it's free) and to add the official del.icio.us extension for Firefox:

    http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extensionnew

    Doing this means you can access your bookmarks from any PC. It's also great if, like me, you run both Windows and Linux, because it allows you access your bookmarks from either platform.
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