Yes, that's the answer. Curiously, while Webvisum is there, Plain Old Favorites isn't. I'd installed Plain Old several years ago, which must explain why it's there in my Firefox bookmarks list. It's also updated to my current IE favorites list. I'm not sure this mystery is worth the time it would take to solve.
From: Bill White [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Adding Favorites In Firefox Try turning off your Virtual Cursor with JAWS Key plus Z once you reach your AdOns, then tab. You should see a list of AdOn categories such as Extensions, Plugins, and Services. PlainOldFavorites should be under Extensions. Once you see Extensions, Tab again, and you should see PlainOldFavorites, and if you have WebVisum installed, it will be there, too. Bill White [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 3:43 AM Subject: Re: Adding Favorites In Firefox Bill, I've followed your instructions and Plain Old Favorites is working. Thanks. However, two questions: 1. Are there any potentially harmful consequences from making this alteration in the Firefox config file? 2. When I open add-ons in the tools menu, I can't get past the list of add-ons Firefox recommends to a list of my installed add-ons. Any ideas? From: Bill White [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 6:53 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Adding Favorites In Firefox Hi again, Adrian. PlainOldFavorites is an unsigned AdOn. For this reason, you must change your about:config file in Firefox to make it work. It only works in Firefox. To install the Adon, you must download it from the following link: http://www.iosart.com/firefox/plainoldfavorites/ After this, do the following: 1. Open Firefox 43 and in the address bar, type the below line as seen with no spaces: about:config 2. You will get a Firefox warning saying: 'This may void your warranty.' Click on the button that says: 'I'll be careful, I promise.' 3. tab once to the list of 700 or so items and press the letter X. You are looking for the below item: xpinstall.signatures.required 4. When this item is highlighted, press the context key or right click and choose toggel or press T (same thing.) 5. The highlighted value should change to false as in: xpinstall.signatures.required;false 6. Press Control-W to close the Firefox window and then relaunch it. PlainOldFavorites should now work. Bill White [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Spratt<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 3:36 PM Subject: Re: Adding Favorites In Firefox Bill, I've been trying to install Plain Old Favorites today, but I just can't get it to work. I have the .exe in my downloads folder, but MS doesn't recognize the file type. I was taken to a recommendation to install Free Viewer, which handles various file types that apparently include Firefox add-ons and extension, but I can't get Free Viewer even to download, never mind install. The Free viewer webpage is here: http://www.freeviewer.com/ Any better ideas? Also, When I open Firefox add-ons, all I get is a list of recommended add-ons. I can't get beyond that point. For the record, I have Firefox 43.0.4, Win7 and JAWS 17. From: Bill White [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 3:52 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Adding Favorites In Firefox Hi, Tom. I also use PlainOldFavorites in Firefox. Adding favorites in Firefox works the same way it does for Internet Explorer. All you need to do is to go to the page you want to make a favorite for in Firefox. Once you are there, Press Alt plus the letter A. Then press the Enter key, and the favorite is automatically added. The thing which may be confusing is that the favorite will appear at the bottom of the favorites list in Firefox instead of being in alphabetical order. If you want the list to be in alphabetical order again, you must go to the PlainOldFavorites AdOn in the AdOns manager in Firefox, Click on the PlainOldFavorites Adon. It will then say Read Only. Tab to the options for that option. Select the option "Sort By Name". If the option says it is checked, press the space Bar to uncheck this option, then press the Space Bar to re-check the option. Tab to the OK button, and press Enter. Then Press Alt plus W to close Firefox. When you open Firefox again, the favorites will appear in alphabetical order. Bill White [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Behler<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 8:09 AM Subject: Adding Favorites In Firefox Hello, everyone. A while back, I imported internet favorites from Internet Explorer to Firefox using the add-on tool called plain old favorites. http://www.iosart.com/firefox/plainoldfavorites/ Since I now am using Firefox as my main internet browser, I'm interested in adding some additional favorites to my favorites list. I can find the tab that says "add favorites", but when I attempt to do this, nothing happens. Jaws says nothing, and I appear to get a blank screen. Am I missing a step here, or is there a different way to add new favorites to my favorites list in Firefox? Thank you! 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