johndiii's Journal: Cool Firefox feature

In the bookmarks toolbar, you can right-click and create a new folder. This functions as a submenu, and you can drag and drop bookmarks onto it. This may not be new to some of you, but it is a really cool feature. The bookmarks toolbar has the stuff that I want for one-click access, and I can have a submenu with more stuff that is click-and-hold accessible.

What's cool is that the Firefox team used the model for a folder (that is, the bookmarks toolbar represents a folder full of bookmarks), and extended it to the logical operations appropriate for a folder and compatible with the toolbar presentation. This is a very good design, in my opinion. Note that this is not the case with Internet Exploder. (hmmmm... Freudian typo...)

l'amour

[stoolpigeon]

I am completely enamoured with firefox. Yes, yes I am.

Heh... even cooler

[FortKnox]

I have 4 folders on my bookmarks toolbar. One of them is "Morning Tabs" which includes everything I read in the monring (slashdot, gmail, bbspot, etc...). Middle clicking the folder opens them all up in tabs. So log in, turn on firefox, middle click folder, everything loads for me in tabs.

Re:Heh... even cooler

[dead sun]

I think one of the neatest things I've found about firefox is that you can middle click on darn near anything and it opens in a new tab. Normal link, new tab, basic. Home button, new tab, somewhat unexpected but nice. Click and hold the back button for the menu, middle click an entry, new tab, super sweet. There's just too much utility for the last one. It's even cooler than open in tabs for a bookmark folder.

Re:Heh... even cooler

[elmegil]

WARNING: Do Not Middle Click Random Bookmark Bar Folders!!!!

I did, and I am very lucky firefox didn't blow up loading a couple dozen unfiled bookmaks in my "To Be Filed" folder. Doh!

One thing I do

[nizo]

Not really firefox specific, but with firefox I add a link on the toolbar to my bookmark file (found by browsing for the bookmarks.html file under ~/.mozilla/blahblahblah). Since I am too lazy to organize my bookmarks, I can click on the "Bookmarks" bookmark on the toolbar and then search through the page that is then loaded. Whew, I hope that all makes sense..... Oh, and firefox rocks :-)

Savvier than Before

[bettiwettiwoo]

I didn't know that. But now ... I do. Handy little trick.

Internet Explorer...

[arb]

You can put folders in you Links toolbar, though it is not as easy as with Firefox. To do it in Explorer you have to "Organise Favorites" and create the folder(s) there. That was a feature I used quite extensively back in my IE days. Netscape 4.x also allowed the same thing, via the "Edit Bookmarks..." menu option. With IE you can drag folders form the Bookmarks menu to the toolbar to create a menu.

Firefox does seem to have made this a lot easier to use, but the feature seems to have been a standard part o

Testing

[Jorj X. McKie]

Will this generate and e-mail message as it should, or is messaging broken? Or is it a problem with the server?

Another Test

[Jorj X. McKie]

Message???