Saving bookmarks in Firefox?

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Night Train

Maker of Things
As above.

I have been using firefox now and it is a lot better then IE or surfing on AOL.

The thing is I now have a lot of book marked sites for research use and projects.
How do I save my book marks as they stand in their folders?

I have what appears to be a book marks folder but it doesn't up date and has no folders in it, just a long list of some of my book marked sites.

Thank you.
 

Norm

Guest
Ctrl-Shift-B will open the bookmarks organiser. You can grab stuff from your history (upper part of left hand side) or open the various bookmarks folders. I only use the bookmarks toolbar, I don't need to save any more than will fit across there.
 

CopperBrompton

Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
Location
London
The easiest way to do it is to use MozBackup, which backs up everything: bookmarks, add-ons, etc - even the tabs you have open.
 

Mr Pig

New Member
The way the bookmarks are organised is one of the few things about Firefox I don't like. To me it seems that over the years Firefox has become more like IE in ways that are not necessarily an improvement. For example, if you only had one tab open the tab-bar used to disappear making the screen bigger. Now it just stays there, wasting space, just like IE and you can't move bars around as easily as you used to be able to do either.
 

Danny

Squire
Location
York
You could also try the Xmarks plugin which backs up all your bookmarks.

A bonus is that it also works with IE so you can easily transfer bookmarks from Firefox on your home computer to a work computer that may only run IE.
 
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Night Train

Night Train

Maker of Things
Norm said:
Ctrl-Shift-B will open the bookmarks organiser. You can grab stuff from your history (upper part of left hand side) or open the various bookmarks folders. I only use the bookmarks toolbar, I don't need to save any more than will fit across there.
That's the one. Thanks.

I usually have only a small number of sites on my tool bar but due to research I have a large number of sites saved for reference.
The toolbar ones I know the addresses for anyway but all the reference stuff would be a nightmare to find again.
 

ASC1951

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Night Train said:
all the reference stuff would be a nightmare to find again.
Yes, it took me a while to realise that the information I had on my PC was several times more valuable than the machine.

I do now back up all my emails, contacts and browser links to a stick - not just my work.
 
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