Find your new Firefox bookmarks a good home
Once your bookmarks are in order, you'll want to keep them organised by placing new bookmarks into appropriate folders.
Undocumented tips help you get more from Firefox
Whenever you want to bookmark the current page, select Bookmarks, Bookmark This Page, or press Ctrl, D. In the resulting Add Bookmarks dialog box, click the 'Create in' menu's down arrow to see a list of folders into which you've recently placed new bookmarks.
But if you don't see the desired folder there, click the down arrow to the far right of the 'Create in' option. This expands the Add Bookmark dialog box, allowing you to select any folder, or to create a new one. When you're done, click ok.
Prune dead bookmarks
Even if they're well organised, your bookmarks won't save you much time if you have to scroll through ones you're no longer using to find the shortcuts you need.
If a Bookmarks submenu has too many entries, right-click it and select Open All in Tabs. As the name implies, this opens each bookmark listed in the folder in a new tab. If a tab reads '404 Not Found,' the page is history. Click the tab, note the URL in the address bar, and delete the corresponding shortcut from the menu.
If you can't match the URL with a bookmark, you can usually guess the one with the bad link by noticing which others are next to it (the tabs open in the order the bookmarks are listed). Or right-click the bookmark, select Properties, and compare the URL in the bookmark with the one on the tab.
Quick links
- Download Mozilla Firefox here
- Read our Mozilla Firefox review here
- Keep tabs on Firefox tabs
- Keyboard shortcuts and bookmarks in Firefox
- Find your new Firefox bookmarks a good home and prune dead bookmarks
- Better default Google search in Firefox and Back up Mozilla Firefox's 'Registry'
- Customise Firefox keyword search, and search a web page quickly
- Purge private data from Firefox
- Revise your Firefox history
- Optimise Firefox for broadband
Comments
macgarrett said: Just optimesed firfox for broadband have virgin and the speed improvement is incredible At least 50 so thanks for a terrific article
Martin said: I appreciate this article is about Firefox and I used to use it Now however I find that Opera knocks spots off it for speed on my dial-up system I still have Firefox and Iexp on my computer but going to FFox from Opera is just as bad as going from FFox to IExp I just dont understand why people persist in recommending FF and largely ignoring Opera Perhaps broadband users wouldnt notice the increase in speed but it makes a helluva difference to me