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I wish they'd fix the Bookmark Manager instead of wasting time on this stuff.

What's wrong with the Bookmark Manager? I always have the Bookmarks pane open, and it works fine for me. I mainly just drag and drop to it. Which reminds me, even in IE10, Microsoft still hasn't fixed the stupid behavior where dragging a link to its Favorites pane shows a proper insertion bar, yet when you release the mouse, the shortcut always goes to the bottom of the list no matter where you tried to insert it. It's like Lucy and the football.

crawfish said:

What's wrong with the Bookmark Manager?

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I just received FF23 about an hour ago.

Five or six years ago, the FF Bookmark Manager was the best, but it hasn't really been improved since then.

I have 20 MB of bookmarks (>50,000?) distributed amongst 7 FF profiles.

The "Sort By Name" function doesn't work once you exceed a certain number of bookmarks in a folder (I'm not sure what the number is).
It works in the Main Pane of the Bookmark Library (using the column headings) however this doesn't permanently reorder them.
Once the "magic number" is exceeded, it can't reorder the bookmarks in a folder (from the context menu).

When you search for a bookmark, you can't display the folder path of the result (without using a 3rd party add-on).

You can't "natively" detect duplicate bookmarks and prevent them from being added.
Worse than that, since FF22 "Bookmark Duplicate Detector" no longer functions.

I've not run into the limitations. I've only got a couple thousand bookmarks and three profiles, though. That said, I totally agree about spending resources on the "social" features. For example, they could make it easier for me to pin my three distinct icons on the taskbar for my profiles.

The classic Bookmarks menu is really not up to par on FF so I used "Plain Old Favorites" instead but from FF version 22.0 it doesn't work which sux. Got used to it since it came out. Also since v22.0 scrolling doesn't work like it used to, if the cursor is on an empty space, it would not scroll up and down. And no, it is not because of the system or drivers, it works just fine on other browsers and programs.

I suspect that the magic number is 999 or 1000.

I was using one of my other profiles (a few hours ago).
I had a folder with ~500 bookmarks and another with ~3000.
The "Sort By Name" function worked with the small folder, but not the large one.

Regarding duplicate bookmarks
The star does indicate if a bookmark exists.
However the edit/review function doesn't work properly in Ubuntu or Linux Mint (it does work in Windows and Arch Linux).

If you have 100 tabs open and decide that you have need to bookmark them, it is a pain to check each tab individually before bookmarking them.

CountMike said:

The classic Bookmarks menu is really not up to par on FF so I used "Plain Old Favorites" instead but from FF version 22.0 it doesn't work which sux. Got used to it since it came out. Also since v22.0 scrolling doesn't work like it used to, if the cursor is on an empty space, it would not scroll up and down. And no, it is not because of the system or drivers, it works just fine on other browsers and programs.

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I don't ever use the Bookmarks menu for the same reasons I don't use the Windows Start Menu; it's cumbersome to navigate, it goes away when I select something from it, etc. I use the Bookmarks pane and Toolbar, which solve those issues much like pinning programs to the Windows taskbar does for Windows.

crawfish said:

CountMike said:

The classic Bookmarks menu is really not up to par on FF so I used "Plain Old Favorites" instead but from FF version 22.0 it doesn't work which sux. Got used to it since it came out. Also since v22.0 scrolling doesn't work like it used to, if the cursor is on an empty space, it would not scroll up and down. And no, it is not because of the system or drivers, it works just fine on other browsers and programs.

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I don't ever use the Bookmarks menu for the same reasons I don't use the Windows Start Menu; it's cumbersome to navigate, it goes away when I select something from it, etc. I use the Bookmarks pane and Toolbar, which solve those issues much like pinning programs to the Windows taskbar does for Windows.

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Cumbersome? in what way?

Do you have more programs than will fit at the top level?

It's cumbersome when you have to scroll through and/or navigate a tree each and every time you want to use it, because it goes away when you select something from it, and the nodes close up every time.

I know this is off topic, but the idea about selecting something is to redirect focus to the selected item.. so the main menu will "go away"...

And the next time you want to choose something, maybe just a few seconds later particularly for Internet shortcuts, you have to drill down all over again if you're using a menu system. It's a lousy interface for frequent access. Acorn recognized this in RISCOS and had right-clicking menu items perform the action but keep the menu open, but it was just a band-aid on bad design.

What I always used is Menu bar on top, be it on IE or FF. I imported Favorites from windows and always kept a backup copy of whole folder on HDD and Usb memory sticks used for troubleshooting. That way is easiest to keep track of them, modify them or make own links. Using Plain Old Favorites was much easier to find and organize them. Bookmark tool bar uses to much of the screen and I don't need it to hang on there all the time. POF does not work any more since v22.0 of FF and can't find out why. Since v22 ff did not even import all the items from favorites, in other words they screwed up one of the parts of FF that I liked the most and that worked perfectly before.
I have only 2 monitors, a 21" 4:3 and a 19" wide screen so the last thing I need is bunch of tool bars hogging the screens.

lehnerus2000 said:

I have 20 MB of bookmarks (>50,000?) distributed amongst 7 FF profiles.

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:shock:
That would be a problem for Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar to display the whole thing.

But anyway, FF allows you to select any bookmark unlike Chrome (weird nightly issue?) where the whole (big) list auto scrolls to bottom and you cannot click in time...

I do have dozens of folders and hundreds of sub-folders.

My wife hates the Firefox bookmarks arrangement. She wants to be able to see a larger list of bookmarks to select from at any one time.
I use a free program called Transmute to transfer and copy the Firefox bookmarks to Internet Explorer's Favorites
folder. Shortcut that folder to the Desktop and once opened she has a full screen of bookmarks to view. Clicking on them opens Firefox (the default browser) to the selected website.
Crazy I know, but she's happy.

With Firefox maximized on my 1680x1050 monitor with a three-row Windows 7 taskbar, I have over 40 Bookmarks visible at all times in my Bookmarks pane and another 25 visible at all times in my Bookmarks toolbar. When I go to my home page, which is the New Tab page, I've got 9 thumbnails of web sites there and could have more if I wanted. Even though my Favorites pane is as wide as possible, the page area is still over 1200 pixels wide, which is wide enough to accommodate basically every web page there is. In fact, it's often wider than necessary, which is the case for this web site.

this is the same trouble there are many facing ... though i have not install the ff 23 so can't see whether it is out in this version or still remaining..