No doubt that Firefox 3 and the new places query syntax is going to lead into a lot of new and creative ways of managing the bookmarks saved on your machine. For those unsure what these are they would be your “Recently Bookmarked” or “Recent Tags” selections you see in your bookmarks menu now with Mozilla’s newest browser.
You can think of them as commands for how you wish to pull up your bookmarks.
When creating one, you do it the same way you would create a bookmark. Hit Ctrl+Shift+B to bring up your Library window. Click on Bookmarks Menu (or any other location you would like to create it) then right click where your bookmarks are listed and select “New Bookmark…”.
Tearing Apart Your Places
Now in the new popup window, instead of typing in an address, we are going to type in the places query syntax. For an example:
place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10
The queryType=0 is telling us to only look at the user’s history and not the bookmarks. 0 would be history, 1 would be bookmarks, and 2 would be both.
The parameter sort= gives us the information on how to organize the results. Here we are using 8 which means to sort by visit count, descending.
Last but not least you have maxResults=10 and it is probably the one you’ll know right off the bat. This number setup here will tell your smart bookmark how many results to show. Setting this number to 0 would give you all the results returned.
Yes, it might still be a little more on the geekier side of things, but play with it some, tear it apart and see what you can come up with.
Very useful, thank you.
Is there available a list with all the parameters and commands to play with?
“Hit Ctrl+Shift+B to bring up your Library window.”
I would like to have a toolbar button to bring up my Library window. Is this an option? If not, why not? It seems to me that any function that can be initiated by multiple keyboard combinations should be possible with a toolbar button. I know that exists as “Organize Bookmarks” selection in the Bookmarks dropdown menu, but I would like an individual button for that because I use it often, and I don’t like using keyboard combinations.
Thanx.
Hi Leo, I’ll be going over it more in the future I’m sure but you can get some of them here:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Places_query_URIs
Henry, I agree – that would be nice. You can drag and drop the bookmarks icon onto the toolbar but that just opens up the standard sidebar link. Shouldn’t be too hard to figure out though.
@Mitch said, June 23, 2008 @ 10:30 am: “Shouldn’t be too hard to figure out though.”
Thanx, Mitch. I would really appreciate that convenience.
BTW, I love Firefox3!
Best, Henry
Thanks, MItch.
I’ll be reading that.
Henry, got sort of a fix for what you needed here.
@June 24, 2008 @ 11:14 am: Henry, got sort of a fix for what you needed here.
Thanx, Mitch! That’s just what I was looking for!
Best, Henry
When one has created such a query, how to edit this ? I just created one as a new bookmark. Then I expect I can somehow edit it, but I cannot find out how. It seems I can only delete this one and create a new one. Doesn’t Firefox 3 have edit functionality for this yet ?