Firefox Bookmarks

Do you sort your Bookmarks into Folders? Maybe it's the way you create them. I use a Bookmark Sidebar and drag the Icon from the Address Bar to the Folder I desire. I can drag as many copies as I want to the same folder. I may not understand what you are trying to do?

Folders = topics, of course.

I put whatever I want a bookmark for in a topic. Call it folder if you want. Subject heading is best term, IMHO.

There is bookmarks toolbar and bookmarks menu. Bookmarks menu is one place that has the subdivisions, aka topics, folders, subject headings, or whatever term works.

As I said I have topic headings for each Atlantic Canadian province. & I have one for Camping and the example I gave I want each province's webpage for regulated fuel prices in both the appropriate provincial topic heading and in the camping topic heading.

This stupid version of Firefox thinks that you only need to put a bookmark under one topic heading. Who the heck thinks the same way every day? It will only let you put one webpage be bookmarked under one topic. If you try to save a bookmark for one page under more than one topic it deletes what's already there. That's what is wrong.

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On the main menu bar, go to 'Bookmarks' Menu and click 'Show All Bookmarks' and a list of all bookmarks appears. Right click the one you want choose 'Copy'; then put cursor over folder title you want to copy it to, right click on it and 'Paste' it

burlmart wrote:
On the main menu bar, go to 'Bookmarks' Menu and click 'Show All Bookmarks' and a list of all bookmarks appears. Right click the one you want choose 'Copy'; then put cursor over folder title you want to copy it to, right click on it and 'Paste' it

Sorry, that's not it. I said I do that. If you do that for the same page for two topics/headings/folders it deletes ALL but the LAST ONE CLICKED. It should be ok to put a webpage under MORE than ONE Topic!!!!

As I have said, none us thinks the same way all the time. You're saying what I said in different words illustrates that point in spades.

Other versions of Firefox let me put the same webpage under more than one topic/subject/folder. There should be a setting to do so in this one.

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I have to go, but someone who could supply screenshot images might fix you up

Change the spelling or add a number for each different folder. The different name should allow you to save in different areas.

DICK

Sneaky, but simple and practical, until the computers get smarter.

TKX

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do stuff like that to save diff. crops or resizings...... for pics and such. Why couldn't my brain cook that up meself??

LK

Indeed FF is screwy. I have a bookmark duplicated in two diff folders, but I cannot do it again (using RV.net Tech Corner as the page to bookmark)

It appeared to be working yesterday, but maybe I never exited and then reopened FF, at which time only one instance of a bookmark will remain.

You are correct; there seems to be a bug

With Firefox you can determine if you have already bookmarked a URL by the presence/absence of the star at the right end of the URL. Clicking the star will bookmark a URL if not already bookmarked.
- If present it is NOT bookmarked.
- If absent it is bookmarked.

If it is bookmarked and you want another copy you should be able to select Bookmarks/Show All Bookmarks.
Then Enter something in the search box (upper right corner) to locate the existing bookmark.
Right click and select Copy.

Navigate to the folder you want to place it and right click - select Paste.

Does this not work for you?


Then to locate and remove the dups I dont want, I use this addon although it has not been updated since 2009 - but still works fine and I am running Fx 26.0a1 Nightly. This will list all the duplicates and where they exist. You select which one(s) you dont want and delete them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-duplicate-detector/

There are other Bookmark Duplicate Cleaners if you want something more current.

Mine lets me have multiple copies of the same bookmark.. But it will complain "You already have this on your system" type complaint.. Just click the "Save the new one anyway" button and it will do so. At least I think it will.. Let me check.. Well test failed, it did not even complain.